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Seksjon for geriatri, slag og rehabilitering
Medisinsk avdeling
Bærum sykehus
Forfatterbidrag: hovedansvar for idé og utforming av studien, datainnsamling, analyse og tolking av data samt utarbeiding av manuset.
Marius Myrstad er ph.d., spesialist i indremedisin og i geriatri og overlege.
Articles by Marius Myrstad
Is NEWS2 good news for the early detection of sepsis?
- Marius Myrstad
30.01.2023:
The NEWS2 scoring system for early diagnosis of sepsis may contribute to standardised patient treatment, but it simplifies reality and must be used with caution. Sepsis is one of the most common causes of death in Norwegian hospitals. It is crucial to detect and treat the condition as early as...
Three waves of COVID-19 in a Norwegian local hospital
- Marius Myrstad,
- Peter Selmer Rønningen,
- Anders Tveita,
- Else Johanne Rønning,
- Per Erik Ernø,
- Elizabeth Lyster Andersen,
- Marte Meyer Walle-Hansen,
- Andrew Campbell Robertson,
- Monica Thallinger,
- Jan Svendsen,
- Sigurd Haakonsen,
- Arnljot Tveit,
- Håkon Ihle-Hansen
13.01.2022:
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a global pandemic with more than 255 million confirmed infections and more than 5 million deaths (1). As of 17 November 2021, there were more than 232 000 confirmed infections, and 995 deaths had been caused by COVID-19 in...
Nursing home deaths after COVID-19 vaccination
- Torgeir Bruun Wyller,
- Bård Reiakvam Kittang,
- Anette Hylen Ranhoff,
- Pernille Harg,
- Marius Myrstad
19.05.2021:
The first COVID-19 vaccination was given in Norway on 27 December 2020. Priority was given to nursing home patients because they have the highest risk of a fatal outcome from COVID-19 (1, 2). However, frail elderly people and those with multiple chronic diseases were underrepresented in the vaccine...
Coronavirus infection on the frontline
- Marius Myrstad
10.02.2021:
More than 5600 employees in the health and care services in Norway were infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. The quality of health services depends on having enough healthy employees who can go to work. It is important to have knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 infection among health service employees for many...
Should all nursing home residents be vaccinated?
- Anette Hylen Ranhoff,
- Marius Myrstad,
- Bård Reiakvam Kittang,
- Torgeir Bruun Wyller
27.01.2021:
Some frail nursing home residents in Norway have died after being vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination is an important measure for preventing outbreaks and deaths in nursing homes, but some of the frailest residents with serious health problems should not be vaccinated. Nursing homes in Norway...
Pulmonary embolism in cases of COVID-19
- Anders Tveita,
- Siv Hestenes,
- Eirik Robsahm Sporastøyl,
- Stian Aleksander Pettersen,
- Bente Lund Neple,
- Marius Myrstad,
- Arnljot Tveit,
- Hege Frøen,
- Jan Svendsen,
- Else Johanne Rønning
06.05.2020:
Here we describe pulmonary embolism in three patients at different stages of COVID-19. The development of pulmonary embolism can be easy to overlook if respiratory failure and hypoxemia are attributed to SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. The clinical picture associated with COVID-19 is complicated by severe...
COVID-19: Symptoms, course of illness and use of clinical scoring systems for the first 42 patients admitted to a Norwegian local hospital
- Håkon Ihle-Hansen,
- Trygve Berge,
- Anders Tveita,
- Else Johanne Rønning,
- Per Erik Ernø,
- Elizabeth Lyster Andersen,
- Christian Hjorth Wang,
- Arnljot Tveit,
- Marius Myrstad
10.04.2020:
COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is caused by infection with the virus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), which belongs to the coronavirus family. The first case among humans very probably arose at the beginning of December 2019 at a food market in Wuhan in Hubei...
Acutely ill older people in the corona era
- Marius Myrstad,
- Anette Hylen Ranhoff
25.03.2020:
The COVID-19 pandemic will affect older people and put health personnel to the test. We wish to draw attention to some main principles in acute geriatric medicine. Experiences from China and Northern Italy show that many of the oldest among us will face serious illness as a result of COVID-19, and...