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This case report describes a 57-year-old male with symptoms of tardive akathisia after long-term metoclopramide treatment. As metoclopramide is a dopamine receptor antagonist, it has the potential to cause drug-induced movement disorders, including akathisia, which is characterised by an inner restlessness resulting in a need for constant movement. Tardive akathisia, in contrast to acute akathisia, evolves after prolonged exposure to the triggering medication and can be a permanent condition. Treatment duration of metoclopramide should be restricted, and awareness of neurological side effects is important.Bite wounds are common in the emergency departments in Denmark. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, more people are adopting pets and the number of hours spent at home with pets are increasing. This will probably result in more bite wounds and therefore, it is as important as ever for emergency doctors to be able to treat bite wounds appropriately. In this review, we summarise the most common types of bite wounds, how to make a thorough physical examination, what to focus on in the anamnesis, and how to treat bite wounds including when to suture and the indications for prophylactic antibiotics.
Hormonal contraception (HC) celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Thanks to thousands of scientific studies on these products, we now have solid knowledge about the short- and long-term effects and also the adverse effects of different contraceptive types. The aim of this study was to analyse trends in the use of different types of HC through the latest decade in different age groups of Danish women and to study reasons for any changes.
Individual-level HC sale statistics were provided from the National Registry of Medicinal Products. All statistics were stated as defined daily doses per 1,000 women per day. Absolute numbers and distributions among users were calculated.
The overall use of HC was stable in women from 15 to 25 years, decreased among women aged 25-34 years and increased among women aged 35 years or more. On average, an increase from 35% to 39% was recorded. Across all age groups, the use of second-generation combined oral contraceptives (COC) has almost completely replaced the use of third- and fourth-generation pills, and from the age of 20 years of age, the use of COC has decreased contrasting a steep increase in use of the hormone-intrauterine device (IUD). The magnitude of this shift increased with increasing age.
Whereas the overall use of hormonal contraception has increased over the latest decade from 35% to 39% among all women aged 15-49 years, hormone-IUDs have increasingly replaced COCs so that they are now dominating among women aged 30 years or more. These changes are expected to have decreased venous thrombosis and menorrhagic complaints in young women substantially.
Expenses were covered by Department of Gynaecology, Rigshospitalet.
The Danish Data Protection Agency (R. no. 2015-41-4481).
The Danish Data Protection Agency (R. selleck chemicals llc no. 2015-41-4481).
Complicated appendicitis increases the risk of post-operative intra-abdominal abscess. Treatment of complicated appendicitis is usually a post-operative course of intravenous antibiotics. A study is needed to confirm the results of retrospective studies showing that a post-operative course of oral antibiotics is not inferior to intravenous antibiotics after laparoscopic surgery for complicated appendicitis.
The Per oral versus Intravenous Postoperative Antibiotics after surgery for complicated appendicitis (PIPA) trial will be a prospective, multicentre, cluster-randomised cluster-crossover non-inferiority study designed to test whether a three-day post-operative course of oral antibiotics is non-inferior to a three-day post-operative course of intravenous antibiotics as standard care after laparoscopic surgery for complicated appendicitis in regards to the risk of post-operative intra-abdominal abscess formation within 30 days. Participating hospitals will either be randomised to a six-month period with an oral antibiotic regime followed by a six-month period with an intravenous antibiotic regime for the post-operative treatment after laparoscopic surgery for complicated appendicitis, or to a six-month period with an intravenous antibiotic regime followed by a six-month period with an oral antibiotic regime for post-operative treatment after laparoscopic surgery for complicated appendicitis.
The primary outcome will be the incidence of intra-abdominal abscess by post-operative day 30.
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The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency and by the National/Regional Committee on Health Research Ethics.
The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency and by the National/Regional Committee on Health Research Ethics.
Loss of workdays is the main societal cost related to shoulder disorders with nine lost workdays per six months on average. The most common shoulder disorder is subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS), but it remains unknown if SIS is also a leading cause of shoulder-related loss of worktime. We aimed to investigate the incidence of workdays lost due to SIS during the six months following a SIS diagnosis in specialised care.
Among 157 consecutive patients diagnosed with SIS in secondary care, 129 (82%) completed a structured six-month follow-up interview. Job status, average working hours and sick leave due to SIS were recorded. Only patients holding a job (n = 58) and patients who lost their job due to SIS (n = 8) were considered to be at risk of losing workdays, leaving 66 patients in the at-risk group. The number of lost workhours due to SIS was calculated and normalised to full-time workdays, and incidences of lost workdays were estimated using Poisson regressions.
In total, 1,781 workdays were lost. The mean number of lost workdays per six months was 27 days (95% confidence interval (CI) 18-40) for patients at risk (n = 66), corresponding to 14 days on average (95% CI 9-21 days) for the entire cohort (n = 129). A total of 33 patients were responsible for all loss of workdays.
We found that an average of 27 workdays (> 5 work weeks) were lost due to SIS during the first six months after the diagnosis in patients who were otherwise fit to work. This is three times higher than the nine days previously reported for shoulder problems in general, indicating that productivity loss in patients diagnosed with SIS is a major concern.
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