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Practice Guideline
[The new international guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care].
Recently the American Heart Association and the European Resuscitation Council published new guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. These new guidelines are the result of extensive review of the scientific literature in this field by The International Liason Committee on Resuscitation. ⋯ The guidelines also promote early defibrillation while the role of pharmacologic therapy during cardiopulmonary resuscitation is not as clear. This article discusses the highlights of the new guidelines.
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Osteoarthrosis (OA) is a growing medical problem in western societies and the cost of the treatment has grown accordingly in the last years. Patients with OA often need to be operated on with arthroplasties and one important outcome measure for this type of surgery is the revision rate. The purpose of this study was to assess the results of knee arthroplasties performed at Akureyri University Hospital during 1983-2003, with special emphasis on revision rates, infections and other complications. ⋯ Our high revision rate for the PCA implant is consistent with what has been seen in other studies. This prosthesis was found to have mechanical problems and was withdrawn from the market. Our revision rate for the AGC implant as well as the rate of infections are low and the results are quite comparable to what has been found in Sweden by the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Registry. The results of knee arthroplasties performed at Akureyri University Hospital, regarding revision rates, infections and complications, are fully comparable to other known results internationally.
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To analyze the long-term outcome for recipients of disability pension in Iceland. ⋯ In Iceland few people return to work once they have started receiving disability pension.
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To acquire information of organ donations and organ waiting lists in Iceland 1992-2002, the beginning of an organ procurement system. ⋯ 87% of organ donations in Iceland come from patients with cerebral haemorrhage, traumatic brain injury or ischaemic stroke. Organ donations in Iceland seem to fulfill the nations need of organs. It is a possible worry that refusal of organ donation by relatives seemed to increase during the period.