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H Haljamäe

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Supervising Swedish nursing research: conflicts experienced between medical and nursing research.

There still seems to be a limited understanding among practitioners of traditional quantitative medical research about the specific characteristics of different qualitative approaches which, due to the nature of the specific nursing care related problems studied, are often used in nursing research. It is of importance for all representatives of nursing and caring sciences to continue with ongoing efforts to establish a solid, widely accepted academic basis for clinical nursing research. Availability of adequate tutor and scientific supervisor competence is crucial for the progress of high-quality nursing research. The importance of the nursing and caring sciences in the successful development of evidence-based clinical practice is becoming widely acknowledged. Therefore, it is expected that in the future more and more responsible health care providers will realise the importance for the whole nursing care environment of encouraging such research.

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Ankle-brachial index (ABI) and leg blood flow following epidural anaesthesia.

The influence of the severity of occlusive arterial disease, as evaluated from the ankle-brachial index (ABI) values, on blood flow and the distribution of blood flow within the lower limb following epidural block to the level of Th 4 to 6 was studied in 48 patients (ABI values ranging from 0.45-1.62). Leg (LBF) and foot (FBF) blood flows were measured with plethysmography and skin blood flow (SBF) was evaluated from laser-Doppler flowmetry and temperature recordings. The resting control LBF, FBF and SBF values were similar for all patients. Following the epidural block mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) decreased by about 20 mmHg. LBF, FBF and SBF all increased. There were significant correlations between the ABI values and the changes following the epidural block in LBF and FBF but not between ABI and SBF changes as evaluated from laser-Doppler flowmetry.

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