In this special issue of Konsthistorisk tidskrift some implications of reconsidering the so-called carpet paradigm are persued. This can provide for new angles not only when it comes to research on ...the Oriental carpet and work on the carpet as motif and medium but also for demonstrating in a further sense how the carpet – and research on it – can be used as a model to understand art and art histories. The American art historian Joseph Masheck introduced this term in his influential article ‘The Carpet Paradigm" (1976). Here it includes analysing the carpet as motif as well as medium. It investigates how the carpet functions as a model for a better understanding of the image in general. Of special importance is the fact that the carpet paradigm forms a crossroads for research on images, textiles, literature, decorative arts, iconography, gender, ornament and cultural transfers–to name but a few. The lines of investigation are interconnecting.
to measure the extent to which documented Swedish midwifery care for low-risk labour and birth followed the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations for care in normal birth, and to compare ...midwifery care given to women who’s labours were classified as low and high risk.
a retrospective examination of midwifery and medical records, 144 from women with low-risk births and 54 from women with high-risk births, for aspects of pregnancy, labour and birth using a validated instrument based on WHO’s recommendations.
southern Sweden.
care given in accordance with WHO’s four categories of practice and changes in risk group during the birth process.
care interventions not recommended by WHO, such as routine establishment of an intravenous route, routine amniotomy during the first stage, continuous electronic fetal monitoring and pharmacological methods of pain relief, were widespread in the records. Documented care differed little between the labours of women at low risk and high risk. The midwives at the unit under study did not routinely carry out risk assessment.
the mode of care was one of readiness for medical intervention. The act of carrying out risk assessments at the time of the woman’s admission may affect awareness of the level of care offered to birthing women, and thus help to reduce the number and variety of practices not recommended by WHO.
Utifrån föreställningen om Butlers genus som en "stiliserad upprepning av handlingar" som kommer till uttryck i gester, rörelser och stilar och Iris Marion Youngs studie av vad det innebär att "kasta ...tjejkast", undersöks performativa aspekter av att göra design. Utifrån tre bilder ur FORM diskuteras hur föreställningar om kön får effekter i designpraktiken så som den porträtteras i tidskriften.
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Several trials have demonstrated improved survival with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. The cause and nature of death in the ICD population have been insufficiently ...investigated. The objective of this study was to analyze ICDs from deceased patients to assess the incidence of ventricular tachyarrhythmias, the occurrence of shocks, and possible device malfunction.
We prospectively analyzed intracardiac electrograms in 125 explanted ICDs. The incidence of ventricular tachyarrhythmia, including ventricular fibrillation, and shock treatment was assessed. Ventricular tachyarrhythmia occurred in 35% of the patients in the last hour of their lives; 24% had an arrhythmic storm, and 31% received shock treatment during the last 24 hours. Arrhythmic death was the primary cause of death in 13% of the patients, and the most common cause of death was congestive heart failure (37%). More than half of the patients (52%) had a do-not-resuscitate order, and 65% of them still had the ICD shock therapies activated 24 hours before death. Possible malfunctions of the ICD were found in 3% of all patients.
More than one third of the patients had a ventricular tachyarrhythmia within the last hour of life. Cardiac death was the primary cause and heart failure the specific cause of death in the majority of the cases. Devices remained active in more than half of the patients with a do-not-resuscitate order; almost one fourth of these patients received at least 1 shock in the last 24 hours of life.
Background: The detection of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) is of importance in stroke care. The method used is continuous electrocardiogram (ECG)-monitoring or multiple short ECG-recordings ...during an extended period. Their relative efficiency is a matter of discussion. In a retrospective cohort study on 994 patients with an ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), we have compared continuous 7-day monitoring to intermittent recording 60 sec three times daily with a handheld device during 3 weeks. We related the result to subsequent occurrence of AF as detected in 12-lead ECG recordings.
Methods: The patients were identified in the local database of cardiovascular investigations. Their clinical profile and vital status during the follow-up were obtained from the Swedish Stroke Register and the Swedish general population registry. For comparison, we used an age- and sex-matched population with no known cerebrovascular event and a population with a cerebrovascular event that was not screened.
Results: AF was detected in 7.1% by continuous screening and in 5.1% by intermittent screening (P = 0.3). During follow-up of 32 months, AF in 12-lead ECG was found in 7.0%. In the subgroup with positive screening, 46.3% had AF compared with 6.7% in the subgroup with negative screening (P < 0.0001).
Conclusions: The two screening approaches had a similar yield of arrhythmia, in spite of the group with intermittent monitoring having a more favorable clinical profile. A positive screening was highly predictive of AF in ECG during the follow-up.
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