Ferid Krupic

University of Gothenburg | GU · Clinical Sciences, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Orthopedics. Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist is a tool developed by the WHO to promote safer surgical practices and reduce the incidence of surgical errors and complications. This study aims to describe the role of assistant nurses in the implementation of this checklist by surgical teams. Materials and methods This d...

Background: For many patients with end-stage disease, organ transplant often provides the only chance for survival. Organ donation (OD) is affected by legislation, cultural and ethnic background, and knowledge and attitudes play a crucial role in promoting that concept. The present study aimed to assess differences in education level, perception,...

Background Despite anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) re-ruptures being common, research on patient experiences after knee trauma has primarily focused on the time after primary ACL reconstruction. Integrating qualitative research and patient experiences can facilitate researchers and clinicians in understanding the burden of an ACL re-rupture. The a...

Background. For many patients with end-stage disease, organ transplant often provides the only chance for survival. Organ donation (OD) is affected by legislation, cultural and ethnic background, and knowledge and attitudes play a crucial role in promoting that concept. The present study aimed to assess differences in education level, perception,...

Background: The correlation between diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction is greater every day. The mean platelet volume (MPV), which is the determinant of platelet function, is an independent risk factor for the cardiovascular disease. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of each disease (hypothyroidism, hypertension,...

bjectives. The present study aimed to assess changes in the perception of and willingness to participate in OD among im�migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina living in Sweden from the perspective of gender differences. Materials and Methods. A cross-sectional study with 60 participants born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and living in Sweden was perform...

Introduction: In Sweden, during specialty training, the nurse anesthetist learns how to ensure patient safety in a health-care setting by implementing the surgical checklist measures during perioperative care. To date, there are still considerable shortcomings when it comes to implementing these patient safety measures in Swedish hospitals. Aim: T...

Background We analysed the long-term revision rate, clinical outcomes and metal ion concentrations in blood over time in patients who had undergone metal-on-metal Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip arthroplasty. Methods A total of 38 patients (43 hips) were included: 24 patients (28 hips) underwent large-head total hip arthroplasty (XL THA),...

Background Delayed treatment of Achilles tendon ruptures is generally due to either misdiagnosis or patient delay. When the treatment is delayed more than 4 weeks, the rupture is defined as “chronic”, and almost always requires more invasive surgery and longer rehabilitation time compared with acute Achilles tendon ruptures. There is insufficient k...

Background: Every year, some 300 million operations are performed around the world, with approximately 700,000 in Sweden. This represents about one surgical procedure per 25 people. All these operations are not free of risk. The safety of patients can be enhanced by teamwork, good communication and checklists ensuring adherence to safety routines....

Background Despite ACL re-ruptures being common, research on patient experiences after knee trauma has primarily focused on the time after primary ACL reconstruction. Integrating qualitative research and patient experiences can facilitate researchers and clinicians in understanding the burden of an ACL re-rupture. The aim of the study was to explor...

The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between the severity of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) and the serum antioxidant status of uric acid (UA), albumin (ALB) and bilirubin (BIL) in female patients. The cross-sectional study included 90 subjects, aged ≥65, divided into three groups: 30...

Psychological impairments can follow an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury and can impact the rehabilitation process. Our aim was to investigate experiences of sports physical therapists (PTs) in addressing psychological impairments in patients after ACL injury. We conducted four focus group interviews with fourteen sports PTs. The PTs’ experi...

Introduction: The invasion of blood and lymph vessels with tumor tissue represents a negative prognostic factor of the disease course in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the marker value of a preoperatively determined size of pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma and its impact o...

Background Total hip arthroplasty is the traditional treatment for osteoarthritis in the hip joint. Hip resurfacing arthroplasty, with metal on metal bearing, is a modern concept initially developed mainly for young active people. The metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty implant, Articular Surface Replacement (ASR), was implanted in approximately 93,000...

Introduction: Organ donation and transplantation of organs are one of the most effective ways to save lives and improve the quality of life for people with end-stage organ failure. Despite its increasing availability from the technological standpoint, the gap between the number of people waiting for transplantation and the number of donors is widen...

Introduction: Post-operative infections are a major issue in healthcare. Not only do these infections strain the budget, but they also cause thousands of patients a great deal of suffering. Research showed that postoperative infections can be prevented. Preoperative hand disinfection is one of these preventative measures. Aim: The aim was to compil...

One of the most significant developments in recent history has probably been organ donation and organ transplantation. They are frequently the only treatment available in certain cases. However, there is an ever-increasing discrepancy between the number of people needing transplantation and the organs available, because the decision to donate an or...

Introduction: The literature regarding undisplaced femoral neck fractures (FNF) is sparse. The aim of this prospective feasibility study is to compare the clinical outcome after undisplaced FNF treated with internal fixation (IF) and displaced FNF treated with hip arthroplasty. We hypothesized that hip arthroplasty would give a lower incidence of...

Aim To examine whether preoperative tumour size may serve as a biomarker for the occurrence of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) in centrally and peripherally located lung adenocarcinoma. Method The study included 261 patients surgically treated for diagnosed lung adenocarcinoma. A ROC curve was used to determine the biomarker potential of tumour size...

Purpose: To investigate contemporary results of percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty (PTRA). Materials and Methods: A multicentre retrospective study analysing all patients treated with PTRA for primary symptomatic renal artery stenosis (RAS) between 2010 and 2013 at four tertiary centres. Procedures during the preceding four years were coun...

Introduction: Patients with hip fracture are one of the most demanding groups in the health-care system. One of the most important tasks for nurses is to assess pain and ensure the patients are pain free. Pain assessment in patients with dementia is a well-known challenge for health-care professionals due to the patients' difficulties in verbalisi...

In spine deformity surgery, iatrogenic neurologic injuries might occur due to the mechanical force applied to the spinal cord from implants, instruments, and bony structures, or due to ischemic changes from vessel ligation during exposure and cord distraction/compression during corrective manoeuvres. „„ Prompt reaction within the reversible phase (...

Aim To describe the experience of healthcare professionals in assessing pain and communication in patients with hip fractures and dementia on an emergency department.. Methods Data were collected through focus group interviews using open-ended questions, following an interview guide and qualitative content analysis. In the interviews participated t...

Purpose: The purpose was to describe health care professionals' experience of using the World Health Organization (WHO) surgical safety checklist. Design: A descriptive cross-sectional mixed-method study, including health care professionals from two clinics at the same university hospital in the western part of Sweden was conducted. Methods: D...

Purpose: To compare the risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) revision and the patient-reported outcome after ACL reconstruction with a concomitant non-surgically treated medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury with regard to 3 ACL graft choices; the use of semitendinosus (ST), the use of semitendinosus-gracilis (ST-G), and the use of patellar...

Aim To explore the experiences of anesthesia nurses in assessing postoperative pain in patients undergoing total hip and/or knee arthroplasty. Methods Data were collected through four focus group interviews (FGI) using the critical incident technique (CIT). The participants were six men and 12 women, all registered nurses with further education in...

Purpose: To investigate modes and quality of interprofessional communication between clinicians and radiologists, and to identify difficulties and possibilities in this context, as experienced by referring clinicians. Patients and methods: Focus group interviews with 22 clinicians from different specialties were carried out. The leading question wa...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine patient-related and treatment-related predictors of superior and inferior function in sport and recreational activities 1 year after an Achilles tendon rupture. Methods This study is based on a multicentre cohort from 4 previous randomised controlled trials. All the patients who had responded to t...

The transplantation of organs is one of the most successful medical advances in recent decades, and transplantation is the treatment of choice for severe organ failure worldwide. Despite this situation and the general acknowledgment of organ donation (OD) as a global priority, the demand for organs outstrips the supply in virtually every country in...

Purpose: The study aim was to explore nurse anaesthetists’ experience of preoperative communication in brief meetings with patients in an orthopaedic setting. Design: Qualitative research Methods: Three group interviews, using individualised open-ended questions, based on nurse anaesthetists’ experiences, were conducted with eighteen nurse anaest...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences in transcranial electric motor-evoked potentials e TceMEP on upper limbs and the incidences of postoperative brachial plexopathy between patients with kyphotic and scoliotic trunk shapes. Methods: In the period of January 2011eJanuary 2017, 61 consecutive patients (mean age: 18.4 year...

Aim To investigate existence of scientific support for linking differences in the experience of pain to ethnicity. Methods The study was designed as a systematic literature review of qualitative and quantitative studies. The inclusion criteria were scientific studies published in scientific journals and written in English. Studies that described ch...

Aim To explore the experience of anaesthetist nurses in brief meetings with immigrant patients in the perioperative setting. Methods The study was conducted though open individualised interviews using open-ended questions. Eighteen anaesthetist nurses (six men and twelve women) participated in the interviews. Their ages varied between 35 and 65 and...

Introduction: Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is essential in monitoring spinal cord function during spinal deformity correction surgery. However, there is little evidence evaluating the surgeon-direction version of IONM. This paper describes demographics of the combined group of patients who underwent this method of IONM, and the outcome of...

Aim To explore and elucidate women’s knowledge of and willingness to take part in organ donation, and to explore if their opinions were changed by coming to Sweden. Methods The study was designed as a qualitative study using data from interviews with women from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia and Kosovo. The inclusion criteria were women...

The authors report the case of a 19-month-old girl with an osteolytic lesion in the distal metaphysis of the left tibia. Based on clinical, radiological and histological findings, the authors suspected osteitis following Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination. After surgical management and antituberculosis treatment for 12 months, radiological...

Background: Pseudotumor formation following total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a well-known complication mainly associated with metal-on-metal (MoM) bearings and taper corrosion on modular-neck femoral stems. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of revision surgery for symptomatic pseudotumors in a large cohort of patients treate...

Aim To assess the relationship between the clinical sign of limited hip abduction and developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). Methods A research was conducted on 450 newborns at the Neonatal Unit at the Clinic of Gynaecology and Obstetrics and the Orthopaedics and Traumatology Clinic of the University Clinical Centre, Tuzla, between 30th August...

Background There is insufficient knowledge regarding the influence of concomitant injuries on the recovery of short-term subjective knee function after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Purpose To determine whether patient characteristics, concomitant injuries, and graft choice during ACL reconstruction can predict which patients ac...

Purpose: A better understanding of patient characteristics and the way common concomitant injuries affect the recovery of muscle function after surgery should help providers to treat patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. The aim of this study was to determine whether patient characteristics, concomitant injuries and graft choice...

Aim To explore the experience of registered nurses in assessing pain in hip fracture in patients with dementia in the postoperative setting. Methods The study questionnaire contained 23 items mainly addressing demographic and social data, information about communication and pain assessment, attention and awareness of the health-care professionals o...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate and explore nurse’s previous experiences of patient care in MBRs before their further education in anesthesia. Design: Qualitative research. Methods: Data were collected through three focus group interviews using content data analysis. Findings: Maintaining patient privacy, providing conditions...

Background: It is not clear whether Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) results will be different 1 or 2 years after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Purpose: To investigate within individual patients enrolled in the Swedish National Knee Ligament Register whether there is equivalence between KOOS at 1 and 2 years af...

Introduction: Femoral neck fracture (FNF) is a devastating injury with serious medical and social consequences. One-third of these patients have some degree of impaired cognitive status. Despite this, a high proportion of hip fracture trials exclude patients with cognitive impairment (CI). We aimed to evaluate whether moderate to severe CI could p...

Purpose To investigate whether the surgical technique of single-bundle anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction,the visualization of anatomic surgical factors and the presence or absence of concomitant injuries at primary ACL reconstruction are able to predict patient-reported success and failure. The hypothesis of this study was that anatom...

Background: Most hospitals today are built to specific standards of light and appearance, sound, ambience, fresh air, greenery and nature, ergonomics and nutrition, with more multiple-bed rooms (MBR) than single-bed rooms (SBR) and between two and four patients in one rom. Long hospital corridors are painted in soft colors and decorated with art. A...

Introduction Monitoring the success of treatment with inhaled corticosteroid fluticasone propionate type comparing with inbibitor of leukotriene, montelukast in preschool children is an everyday topic. Control of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is one of the most important issues today in paediatrics, especially in paediatric pulmonology. Ob...

Introduction Scott Aarskog syndrome is an X-linked disorder characterised by short stature, hypertelorism, shawl scrotum in boys and brachydactyly. Syndrome is a genetic abnormality and the condition cannot be cured by optimal way. Aims The aim of this paper is to describe an extremely rare syndrome especially with mild mental retardation. Method...

BackgroundsGroup A beta-hemolytic streptococci(GABHS) being the most common bacterial etiology of Streptococcal Pharyngitis. Despite extremely high susceptibility of Group A Streptococcus to penicillin, the failure of therapy with penicillins may occur due to beta-lactamase production by oral bacteria. Most throat infections are self-limiting and c...

Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR) using a hamstring tendon (HT) autograft is an effective and widespread method. Recent studies have identified a relationship between the graft diameter and revision ACLR. Purpose: To evaluate the influence of the graft diameter on revision ACLR and patient-reported outcomes in pa...

Background: Sleep disorders and nightmares are often rooted in post-traumatic stress and have a significant impact on the quality of mental health. There is an obvious relationship between war trauma and a higher frequency of nightmares and insomnia symptoms. Aim: To study sleep disorders among former Kurdish Peshmerga (soldiers) and its impact on...

ABSTRACT Background: Sleep disorders and nightmares are often rooted in post-traumatic stress and have a significant impact on the quality of mental health. There is an obvious relationship between war trauma and a higher frequency of nightmares and insomnia symptoms. Aim: To study sleep disorders among former Kurdish Peshmerga (soldiers) and its i...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate and explore nurse's previous experiences of patient care in MBRs before their further education in anesthesia. Design: Qualitative research. Methods: Data were collected through three focus group interviews using content data analysis. Findings: Maintaining patient privacy, providing cond...

Background: According to the UNHCR, 250 million people currently live outside their country of birth. The growing multicultural population poses a major challenge to healthcare professionals who aim to provide individualized, holistic care, which respects the individual’s autonomy. To ensure basic rights, healthcare interventions should be guided b...

Introduction Fractures of the radial head and neck are the most common fractures of the elbow, and account for approximately one-third of all elbow fractures. Depending on the fracture type the treatment is either conservative or surgical. There is no absolute consensus regarding optimal treatment for different fracture types. The aim of this proto...

Background: Restoration of femoral offset (FO) and leg length is an important goal in total hip arthroplasty (THA) as it improves functional outcome. Purpose: To analyze whether the problem of postoperative leg lengthening and FO reduction is related to the femoral stem or acetabular cup positioning or both. Material and Methods: Between September...

Introduction: Transplantation of organs is the treatment of choice for severe organ failure worldwide. Aim: The aims of the present study were to determine the influence of religion on attitudes towards organ donation among staff at schools in Tuzla. Material and Methods: In the Tuzla region there are 42 schools and 1580 school staff. A total of 21...

Traumatic wounds make them one of the most common reasons for an emergency department visit. Foreign objects embedded in the musculoskeletal system through penetrating injury are a common problem, with more than a third missed in the initial clinical evaluation. Wood, glass, and metal accounted for 95 percent of the foreign bodies (FBs) seen. In 38...

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Background: Transplantation of organs is one of the most successful medical advances of the past 60 years and transplantation is the treatment of choice for severe organ failure worldwide. Despite this situation, and the general acknowledgement of organ donation as a global priority, demand for organs outstrips supply in virtually every country in...

Background: After laparoscopic repair of an incisive hernia, intraperitoneal prosthetic mesh, as a foreign material, is a strong stimulus for the development of adhesion, which may be the cause of serious complications. This experimental study compared three different meshes and their ability to prevent the formation of adhesion and shrinkage. Me...

Abstract Background: According to recent statistics, the number of people who had fled their own home by 2015 was 59.5 million. In this context, the number of people who need a third person as a language link in communication with health care services has increased dramatically. This issue has led to a major challenge to healthcare providers to ful...

Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate how immigrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia and Kosovo experienced contact with Swedish health-care regarding meeting with health-care professionals. Material and Methods: Eighteen participants , nine men and nine women from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia and Kosovo participated in focus group i...

Aims and objectivesTo study a group of immigrants' experiences regarding interactions with primary health care through an interpreter. Background Approximately, 230million people are resettled outside of their own home country. Thus, more than 3% of the world's population are migrants. It is a major challenge for health care providers to satisfy im...

Background and purpose In preparing patients for total hip replacement surgery, providing thorough information helps to reduce anxiety, manage postoperative pain, prevent complications, and better engage patients in their rehabilitation. However, patient characteristics may have an influence on the ability to comprehend and assimilate the informati...