Ulf E. Kongsgaard

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Avdeling for anestesi, intensiv og operasjon

Akuttklinikken

Oslo universitetssykehus, Radiumhospitalet

Institutt for klinisk medisin

Universitetet i Oslo

Forfatterbidrag: utforming, analyse og tolkning av data, litteratursøk, utarbeiding/revisjon av manus samt godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.

Ulf E. Kongsgaard er spesialist i anestesiologi, overlege og professor emeritus.

Articles by Ulf E. Kongsgaard

Preoperative anaemia in elective surgery with bleeding risk

Isabel Joly Stefors,
Rune Ougland,
Ulf E. Kongsgaard

24.03.2026: Anaemia is independently associated with increased morbidity and mortality in surgical patients (1–3). Several international studies of surgical populations have reported an anaemia prevalence of 30–40 % (1–4), with iron deficiency being the most common cause (4–6). In moderate to major surgical...

Complaints to the Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation 2001–14 following nerve blockade

Ulf E. Kongsgaard,
Kristine Fischer,
Tor Erlend Pedersen,
Ida Rashida Khan Bukholm,
Torhild Warncke

20.12.2016: The Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation (NPE) is a government agency under the Ministry of Health and Care Services. It was established in 1988 as an interim provision, and became part of Norwegian law when the Act on Patient Injury Compensation came into force in 2003. The agency...

Palliative sedation at the end of life – revised guidelines

Reidun Førde,
Lars Johan Materstvedt,
Trond Markestad,
Ulf E. Kongsgaard,
Sebastian von Hofacker,
Siri Brelin,
Stephan Ore,
Morten Laudal

10.02.2015: Palliative sedation of patients at the end of life involves a number of medical, ethical and legal challenges. As a support to doctors who provide this treatment to patients who cannot be helped in any other way, the Norwegian Medical Association prepared a set of guidelines in 2001. These have now...

Frédéric Chopin and his suffering

Ulf E. Kongsgaard

08.04.2011: 2010 was the 200 th anniversary of Chopin’s birth. Frédéric François Chopin, christened Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was born in Żelazowa Wola, a small town near Warsaw. The date of birth has not been definitely established. A birth certificate has been found that gives the date 22 February 1810 (1...