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Dag Bratlid er spesialist i barnesykdommer, tidligere professor ved NTNU og tidligere overlege i nyfødtmedisin ved Barne- og ungdomsklinikken, St. Olavs hospital. Han har en mastergrad i helseadministrasjon.
Articles by Dag Bratlid
Homo sapiens should be red-listed
- Dag Bratlid
24.09.2025:
The global and national decline in fertility rates and total births indicates that the Homo sapiens species is on a trajectory that would be considered a crisis in any other species. It could end in self-extinction. The self-extinction of Homo sapiens could become a reality, as the World Wildlife...
22.01.2018:
The number of doctors in hospitals is increasing far faster than the number of patients. Although hospital doctors claim to have less and less time available for working with patients, each patient nevertheless spends more time with a doctor. The doctors' working hours need to be better organised to...
Is the Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation in the best interests of patients?
- Dag Bratlid
12.12.2017:
The Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation and the Patients' Injury Compensation Board have been harshly criticised in reports on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's NRK News by patients and lawyers as well as by former and current medical experts within the system. These reports have...
A meaningless doctors’ strike?
- Dag Bratlid
22.11.2016:
Including a method of organising hospital shift work that is more than 20 years old in a collective agreement should not be the first priority for solving any of the problems that the specialist health services are facing. The doctors should rather have gone on strike to come under the protection of...
13.09.2016:
A national standard for estimating date of delivery and gestational age must include both technological and biological information. Ultrasound-based methods such as Terminhjulet or eSnurra will, when used together with a good clinical assessment of menstrual history, provide pregnant women with a...
Treatment of a patent ductus arteriosus in premature infants
- Dag Bratlid,
- Teresa Farstad
13.08.2009:
In foetal life, the ductus arteriosus connects the pulmonary artery to the aorta. At birth the ductus contracts and is functionally closed within a few days. Closure of the ductus is a result of several mechanisms, the most important being the increase in blood oxygen tension at birth and reduction...