{"title":"Why are egg donors paid less than sperm donors?","authors":"Joar Røkke Fystro","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.24.0115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140864017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myotonic dystrophy type 1 - a multiorgan disorder.","authors":"Kristin Ørstavik, Gro Solbakken, Magnhild Rasmussen, Petter Schandl Sanaker, Hanne Ludt Fossmo, Einar Bryne, Torill Knutsen-Øy, Tonje Elgsås, Arvid Heiberg","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.23.0687","DOIUrl":"10.4045/tidsskr.23.0687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Myotonic dystrophy type 1 is an autosomal dominant, inherited multiorgan disorder that can affect people of all ages. It is the most prevalent inherited muscular disease in adults. Late diagnosis points to limited knowledge among the medical community that symptoms other than typical muscular symptoms can dominate. The condition often worsens with each generation and some families are severely affected. Significantly delayed diagnosis means a risk of more serious development of the disorder and inadequate symptomatic treatment. We hope that this clinical review article may lead to more rapid diagnosis and better follow-up of this patient group.</p>","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140863041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lack of clarity about 'patient safety incidents'.","authors":"Alma Mulac, Solrun Elvik, Øystein Flesland","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.24.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140865749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erlend Vik, Tonje Hungnes, Ola K Mowinckel, Sølve Mikal K Nerland
{"title":"The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the district medical officer's role - a qualitative study.","authors":"Erlend Vik, Tonje Hungnes, Ola K Mowinckel, Sølve Mikal K Nerland","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.23.0673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.23.0673","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We wished to examine the role of the district medical officer in five Norwegian municipalities to provide new knowledge of how the experience from the pandemic might have led to changes to the district medical officer's role.</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 persons who had held key positions in local crisis management teams during and after the pandemic. The informants were recruited from five municipalities within the same county, and they all held leadership roles in health care (district medical officers), local politics or administration. The investigation followed up a study undertaken during the pandemic on an approximately identical study sample.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After the pandemic, the function of the district medical officer had been expanded in terms of a greater full-time equivalent percentage, while their organisational placement had remained unchanged in the local administrations that were studied. Political and administrative leaders stated that as a result of their collaboration during the pandemic, they had become more familiar with the district medical officer as a professional and as a resource person in the organisation. The district medical officers reported a higher demand for their expertise in community health.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Close and frequent collaboration between the district medical officers and the local administration has helped enhance their mutual knowledge. The expertise of the district medical officers has become better recognised in the organisations, and the parties find it easier to contact each other to draw on each other's competence.</p>","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140866380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More than words.","authors":"Bettina C Fossberg","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.24.0156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140868747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[About the Norwegian translation of ‘acute respiratory distress syndrome’].","authors":"Lars E Gramstad","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0134","DOIUrl":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140871994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[COVID-19 vaccination among adolescents with an immigrant background].","authors":"Thea Steen Skogheim, Lema Hussaini","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0158","DOIUrl":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140857895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madhumitha Sentamilvannan, Abir Al-Dekany, Helena Niemi Eide, Anne Kveim Lie
{"title":"[Vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic among young people with an ethnic background in east Oslo – a qualitative study].","authors":"Madhumitha Sentamilvannan, Abir Al-Dekany, Helena Niemi Eide, Anne Kveim Lie","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.23.0690","DOIUrl":"10.4045/tidsskr.23.0690","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Few studies have been conducted on young people's attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic. We wished to examine how young people with an ethnic minority background decided whether to have the COVID-19 vaccine, based on the concept of vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine hesitancy involves uncertainty with regard to vaccination, irrespective of the decision taken.</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>Fourteen qualitative in-depth interviews with young people aged 16-25 years with an ethnic minority background and from the east side of Oslo were analysed and categorised into main themes. The participants also had links to the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Several of the study participants were hesitant to be vaccinated. Their hesitation was linked to the impression that the vaccine had been developed rapidly, false rumours, long travel times to vaccination centres and fear of adverse effects. A number called for better information. Vaccination through the school was described as a facilitating factor. Family and friends were less crucial in their assessment of whether to have the COVID-19 vaccine. The majority had trust in the authorities.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Insufficient knowledge about the vaccine and fear of adverse effects, as well as practical barriers associated with undergoing vaccination, appears to contribute to vaccine scepticism among young people with an ethnic minority background. The authorities and healthcare personnel should provide young people with better vaccine information. Information should be provided by personnel they already trust, such as the school nurse.</p>","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140866384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How should intravenous antibiotic therapy at home be organised?","authors":"Hilde Fjeld, Marta Vukovic","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.24.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.24.0081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140869993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ellisiv Seines, Mariann Harneshaug, Trine Skjeflo, Fredrik Isachsen, Erik Waage Nielsen
{"title":"Pneumothorax during shoulder surgery.","authors":"Ellisiv Seines, Mariann Harneshaug, Trine Skjeflo, Fredrik Isachsen, Erik Waage Nielsen","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.23.0542","DOIUrl":"10.4045/tidsskr.23.0542","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pneumothorax following shoulder arthroscopy, although rare, is documented in over 30 PubMed case reports as occurring during or within 10 hours post-procedure.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>A fit septuagenarian underwent a two-hour arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with IV anaesthesia and laryngeal mask airway, without a nerve block. With one hour remaining of the operation, the patient had desaturation and hypotension. Lung sliding was absent on ultrasound and x-ray confirmed left-sided tension pneumothorax. Successful thoracic drain insertion and lung re-expansion facilitated his recovery, allowing discharge after 24 hours and symptom-free status at 6 months.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>This case highlights pneumothorax as an uncommon yet possible post-arthroscopic event. The speculated aetiology is the surgical procedure, where pump-induced pressure fluctuations may displace air into surrounding tissue. Instances of pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema without pneumothorax suggest arthroscopic origin of air. Prompt perioperative ultrasound can aid in detecting such critical complications.</p>","PeriodicalId":23123,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140866605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}