In total 249 horses surgically treated for colic in Sweden during 2002 until 2005 were studied. The horses was identified by the animal insurance company Agria. Survival was studied with respect to age, gender, breed, diagnosis (small intestinal problems, caecal problems, large intestinal problems, incarceration in nephrosplenic ligament, unspecific colic and other colic problems) and treating hospital. Different survivals were calculated. For short-term survival proportions was used and for long-term it was done using Kaplan-Meier technique and log-rank testing.

Antalet datortomografiundersökningar har ökat kraftigt i Sverige och världen, vilket ökar stråldosen till patienterna. Ökat antal undersökningar ger större potentiella risker för populationen. Fortsätter datortomografiundersökningarna öka kan det i framtiden leda till ett folkhälsoproblem, på grund av risken för strålningsinducerad cancer. Syftet med denna studie var att granska om det ökade antalet datortomografiundersökningar kan motiveras med tanke på riskerna för strålningsinducerad cancer och avvägning nytta mot risk. Ungefär 20 % av de undersökningar som genomförs i Sverige i dag är oberättigade.

The aim of the essay was to see how the respondents reasoned about different themes like, isolation, integration and barriers to integration, given that they had all been diagnosed with a psychosis diagnosis. The essay takes part of secondary data that had been gathered through interviews by researchers at the department of Research and Development Psychiatric South Stockholm during a 3 year period. To work with the interview data a qualitative interview analysis method was used. The interviews were analyzed against theories of social interaction, labeling, stigma and the theory of ?role exit?.

AbstractAim: The aim of this study was to describe which coping strategies women use when they have been diagnosed with breast cancer. In addition, the purpose was to describe how woman?s self-image changes after a mastectomy. Method: A literature review study has been carried out with a descriptive design. The result of the study included 16 articles which were found in the databases: Cinahl, PubMed, PsycInfo and through manual search.

Introduction: Every year about 450 women in Sweden are diagnosed with cervical cancer, almost 200 die and thousands undergo surgery because of cell changes in the cervix. A HPV infection can lead to cervical cancer and therefor costs for the society. The implementation of a vaccination program against HPV is a way to avoid these costs. Aim: The study aimed to calculate the economic impact of the HPV- vaccination program for children in Sweden through a cost-benefit analysis. Method: In this analysis, status quo was compared with non-administration of the HPV-vaccine for the selected cohort of ten-years-old girls in Sweden.

Syftet med denna systematiska litteraturstudie var att beskriva hur patienter med cancer upplevde att vårdas palliativt i hemmet samt vilket behov av stöd de hade. Litteratursökningen genomfördes på databaserna Blackwell Synergy, PubMed och Elin. Artiklarna skulle vara publicerade mellan åren 1999 och 2007. Granskningen av artiklarna genomfördes med hjälp av en modifierad mall av Willman, Stoltz och Forsberg, Wengström. Urvalet resulterade i elva kvalitativa och sex kvantitativa artiklar.

Att få cancer och att genomgå cytostatikabehandling är en realitet för många människor idag, vilket orsakar flera förändringar i en människas liv. I denna litteraturstudie var syftet att beskriva upplevelsen av cytostatikabehandling. Sexton internationella vetenskapliga artiklar publicerade mellan år 1995-2002 som analyserades med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i fyra kategorier: att vara deprimerad och ha funderingar kring livet och döden, att självbilden, kroppens utseende och funktion förändrats, att tröttheten och förlusten av energi påverkar humöret och viljan, samt att få förändringar i munhåla, svalg och problem från magen. .

Today many children and youths are allocated to ?The Swedish Authority of Child and Youth Psychiatry (BUP) for the sake of being investigated by means of a neuropsychiatric inquire and many of which are assigned the diagnosis ADHD. During recent years ?The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare? has declared, in it?s annual account of the current psychiatric state of Swedish Children and Youths, that the healthcare provided for those with neuropsychiatric diagnoses ? such as Asperger syndrome and ADHD, has increased.ADHD is short for Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which implies neuropsychiatric impediments i.e. hyper activity, inadvertence and an inability to control impulses.The aim of the Study is to describe and analyze how youth, in the age range of sixteen to eighteen years of age, diagnosed with ADHD define themselves, their daily life, their social state, their next to kin relationships and, finally, their concept of their future.The Study is qualitative.

Background: Stroke is one of the leading causes for longlasting sequelae, among themloss in cognitive function, like aphasia. Aphasia effects the patients ability to understandand express themselves in speaking and writing. To be able to reach a good level of care,the careproviders and patients ought to have the same goals and values. This requires agood communication between the careproviders and patients. Which can be problematicfor the caregivers when they don't feel secure in their way of getting close to these patients.Aim: The purpose of this study was to illuminate caregivers experience of caring forpatients with the diagnosis aphasia following stroke.Method: This is a literature study where nine studies, with qualitative design, has beenanalyzed and compiled.

Bakgrund: Antal personer som får diagnosen cancer ökar varje år. Palliativ vård innebär vård, lindring och stöd i det skede då sjukdomen inte längre går att bota. Cancer är en av de sjukdomar som kan leda till palliativ vård. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka personens upplevelser av sjuksköterskans omvårdnad inom palliativ vård. Metod: Metoden som användes var litteraturstudie.

Urination is a biological need but the routines surrounding urination are culturally specific and ever changing. This makes the organization of public space an important part in deciding what actions are made possible for the people in it. This paper considers women?s public urination and the possibilities to merge the need to urinate and the construction of the female body as feminine.A number of texts that describe the construction of the female body and identity as both gendered and socially produced are analysed in relation to women?s experiences of incontinence. Incontinence as a medical diagnosis is by this becoming possible to question, and may be seen as one of several strategies used to manage both the organization of the public space and the expectations of the female body to be a docile body.The conclusion is that a woman who wants to enter public space has the following options when it comes to the need to urinate:To strive for the feminine ideal.

Bakgrund: Cancer är ett samlingsnamn för många sjukdomar som har gemensamt att sjukaceller börjar dela sig okontrollerat och bildar tumörer. Ordet cancer är skrämmande och dendrabbade begränsas av sjukdomen, men det är inställningen till sjukdomen som avgörupplevelsen av hälsa.Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur individer med obotlig cancersjukdomupplever sin hälsa.Metod: Uppsatsen utfördes med en kvalitativ ansats baserad på sex självbiografier skrivna avpersoner med obotlig cancersjukdom. För att analysera biografierna användes kvalitativinnehållsanalys (Lundman & Hällgren Granheim, 2012)Resultat: Det framkommer i resultatet att stödet från närstående och vänner var viktigt liksomatt leva så normalt som möjligt. Gemensamt var att finna livskraft och mening i stödet ochkärleken de fick från sina närstående samt att kunna leva sitt liv som de gjorde innan de blevsjuka. Även den religiösa tron var viktig och gav styrka och hopp.Slutsats: Trots att de sjuka visste att de skulle dö inom en snar framtid så kunde de ändå finnahälsa i sitt liv.

Ultrasound is still a relatively new method for the diagnosis of abdominal conditions in cattle. The objective of this study is to evaluate ultrasound as a diagnostic tool for the common diseases affecting high-producing dairy cattle, for example traumatic reticuloperitonitis, right- and left displacement of the abomasum, fatty liver, wound infections and abscesses. This paper is a combined litterature study and a report of the results from ultrasound examinations of bovine patients at the ruminant clinic at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The study includes two healthy cows from the ruminant clinic, and seven patients with abdominal related diseases. The examinations were made with a 2-6 MHz curvilinear transducer and both the right and left sides of the abdomen were scanned.

Background: People diagnosed with psychosis are often described as introvert, isolated and with little or no ability to create and maintain social relationships. While every angle of a phenomena is valid and important, we believe that the first-person perspective provides the only direct access to the diagnosed persons? feelings and experiences.Aims: The aim of this study is to explore how a few people diagnosed with psychosis describe their experiences of social interaction.Method: This study is conducted in a Grounded Theory manner. An analysis has been performed on interviews made with five individuals, all diagnosed with a psychosis diagnosis.Results: The main result of this study is that the self-image is a core factor in the individuals experiences of, and initiative to, social interaction. The social interactions are linked to the individuals own relation to their diagnosis in a dynamic process where all components affect each other in the creating of the self-image.Conclusion: This study concludes that people diagnosed with psychosis is no different than other people when it comes to dreaming and longing for functional social relationships, but that they have some difficulties in actually finding them due to both social stigma and a poor self-image..

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an important but unusual cause of chronic respiratory disease of young dogs. The purpuse of this paper is to study and present internationally publicated papers on PCD in dogs and present three dogs, in which PCD was suspected. PCD has been reported in many dog breeds as well as in people. In dogs an humans, PCD is caused by inborn genetical defects which causes structural and functional abnormalities of cilia in the respiratory organs and other cilia in the body. Situs inversus occurs in about half the cases in people and probably in dogs as well. Respiratory signs usually predominate.