AWARD. Six of this year’s seven award recipients attended the touching award ceremony for the Thesis of the Year. The ceremony also gave a vivid account of pediatrician Arnt Vestby, whose donation funds the Thesis of the Year awards at Sahlgrenska Academy. During 2021, 140 doctoral students defended their theses, with seven of these being honored during the award ceremony–one award for each of the six institutions and one for…
Smart glasses broaden the horizons in anesthesia care
TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH. Imagine a pair of glasses that can display important data, livestream the field of vision, react to voice control, show videos, and be used like a phone to talk to people in other rooms. The technology exists and is called augmented reality, or AR. A research project is now looking at how smart glasses can be used in anesthesia care at the Institute of Health and Care…
GPCC strengthens its research to achieve the goals for the new centre period
INTER-ACTION. The Centre for Person-centred Care GPCC is now starting up new research projects and new collaborations. The projects will strengthen the GPCC’s research program for the new six-year period, which corresponds to the transition to person-centred care that is ongoing nationally and internationally. The Centre for person-centred care GPCC will start another six-year period as a center after the summer, which the University of Gothenburg decided on last winter.…
The Biomedical Library is preserving historic books on maternity care
MEDICAL HISTORY. As science gained a foothold in the 17th century, physicians turned their attention to childbirth, leading the oral traditions and knowledge of midwives finally being preserved in books. The Biomedical Library is now restoring several historic books that they received as a donation from the Institute of Health and Care Sciences. Jenna Harju, conservator at the Biomedical Library, provides some insight into this preservation work. The books show…
Catheter infections went down after more preventive efforts
NEW STUDY. Patients with urinary catheters often get infections. But more comprehensive preventive efforts in health care cut the proportion affected in a group of frail elderly patients from 18 to 4 percent, a study led by University of Gothenburg researchers shows. The study, published in Journal of Infection Prevention, comprises a total of 2,408 patients with acute hip fractures treated at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Mölndal. In orthopedics generally,…