Bakgrund: Anestesi- och operationssjuksköterskan träffar många olika patienter, allt ifrån barn och äldre till friska som svårt sjuka. I den perioperativa vården sker dödsfall sällan och personalen är ofta oerfarna av detta. Tidigare forskning visar att perioperativa dödsfall påverkar personalen. Det finns olika sätt att hantera känslomässiga eller stressande situationer. Syfte: att undersöka anestesi- och operationssjuksköterskans upplevelse av perioperativa dödsfall. Metod: Kvalitativ innehållsanalys med induktiv ansats. Anestesi- och operationssjuksköterskor som varit med om ett perioperativt dödsfall intervjuades. Resultat: Temat som framkom är ”En sällanhändelse som berör” från kategorierna ”Omständigheterna kring dödsfallet påverkar”, ”Yrkeserfarenheten spelar roll”, ”Betydelsen av teamet”, ”Emotionella reaktioner” och ”Betydelsen av bearbetning” med tillhörande subkategorier.  Konklusion: Perioperativa dödsfall är något som händer sällan men som berör anestesi- och operationssjuksköterskan. Dödsfall är alltid speciellt när det sker på operationsavdelningen och några viktiga aspekter i upplevelsen är att personalen känner att de har gjort allt de kan, haft god samverkan i teamet och fått bearbeta händelsen. / Background: The anesthetic- and surgical nurse meets many different patients, everything from children and the elderly, to the healthy and the seriously ill. In perioperative care, deaths rarely occur and the staff are often inexperienced of this. Previous research shows that perioperative deaths affect staff. There are different ways to deal with emotional or stressful situations. Aim: to investigate the anesthetic- and surgical nurse's experience of perioperative death. Method: Qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach. Anesthetic- and surgical nurses' who had experienced a perioperative death were interviewed. Results: The theme that emerged is "A rare event that affects" from the categories "The circumstances surrounding the death affect", "Professional experience matters", "The importance of the team", "Emotional reactions" and "The importance of processing" with their subcategories. Conclusion: Perioperative death is something that happens rarely but affects the anesthetic- and surgical nurse. Death is always special when it happens in the operating room and some important aspects of the experience are that the staff feel they have done everything they can, have good teamwork and been able to process the event.

Bakgrund: Trauma är den vanligaste primära dödsorsaken bland individer upp till 44 års ålder i Sverige, vilket påvisar betydelsen av en utvecklad traumavård. Inom kontexten av traumalarm på sjukhus är anestesisjuksköterskans roll avgörande. När traumapatienter anländer till sjukhus, larmas dedikerade traumateam enligt förutbestämda protokoll för att möta patienten och dennes behov. Specifikt för traumalarm nivå 1, vilket indikerar en högre grad allvar, är att anestesisjuksköterskan tillsammans med en anestesiläkare mobiliseras. I dessa situationer lämnar anestesisjuksköterskan den vanliga arbetsmiljön på operationsavdelningen för att arbeta under akuta och oförutsedda förhållanden på akutmottagningen. Syfte: Att undersöka anestesisjuksköterskors upplevelse av traumalarm nivå 1. Metod: Datamaterialet samlades in genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio deltagare från samma sjukhus. Datamaterialet analyserades genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Utifrån datamaterialet utformades nio underkategorier med tre tillhörande kategorier; förutsättningar för säkert traumaomhändertagande, stress vid traumalarm och känslomässiga aspekter vid traumalarm. Utifrån dessa kategorier framkom ett tema; kan det oförberedda förberedas. Konklusion: Anestesisjuksköterskor upplever att god och tydlig kommunikation under traumalarm är centralt och att framgång i arbetet underlättas mycket av en stark traumaledare. Anestesisjuksköterskorna upplever känslomässiga reaktioner både före, under och efter traumalarm. Mest framträdande i de emotionella aspekterna är den eftervarande responsen då larmet och situationen är hanterad. / Background: Trauma is the leading primary cause of death for individuals up to 44 years old in Sweden, underscoring the need for advanced trauma care. Nurse anaesthetists play a crucial role in hospital trauma alerts. When trauma patients arrive, specialized teams are mobilized following specific protocols. For level 1 trauma alerts, indicating severe cases, nurse anaesthetists work with anaesthesiologists, leaving their regular operating room duties for emergency department conditions. Purpose: This study investigates nurse anaesthetists’ experiences with level 1 trauma alerts. Method: Data were gathered from qualitative semi-structured interviews with ten hospital staff members working at the same hospital. A qualitative content analysis was conducted. Results: The analysis yielded nine subcategories and three main categories: prerequisites for safe trauma care, stress during trauma alerts, and emotional aspects of trauma alerts. From these categories a theme emerged: can the unprepared be prepared? Conclusion: Effective communication is vital during trauma alerts, and successful outcomes are often aided by strong leadership. Nurse anaesthetists experience emotional responses before, during, and after trauma alerts, with notable emotional impacts following the resolution of the situation.

Title of the thesis: Specifics of the nursing care of patients with MRSA in the operating room from an anesthesiology nurse perspective. The aim of this thesis was to identify the specifics of nursing care of a patient with the MRSA in the operating room from the perspective of nurses working in the operating room. In the theoretical part focus is given to nursing care and its specifics for a patient with MRSA. Chapters relating to the regime measures, barrier nursing procedures and the use of specific aids, instruments and tools are treated in detail. The nursing care provided by anesthesia nurses and perioperative nurses in the operating room is defined. To reach the goals the quantitative research through questionnaires was chosen. The research sample consisted of anesthesia nurses and perioperative care nurses. Two types of standardized questionnaires were used, consisted of closed questions where respondents chose an appropriate answer, and from semi-open questions where respondents could specify their answers, and in one case open questions. Both questionnaires were completed by 12 test questions, where respondents had the choice of three possible answers, where one answer was correct. The results of the investigation are summarized in two types of graphs. Bar charts were used in questions where more answers were possible to mark, and for a better clarity the results were supplemented by tables. Results to other questions, where options were limited by one answer, are shown in percentages in pie graphs. Our thesis is very narrowly focused, because we concentrated on specifics of nursing care in a patient with MRSA in the operating room. We have determined the specifics of barrier nursing, nursing problems in a patient with MRSA in the operating room. We have discovered barrier nursing procedures in a patient with MRSA in the operating room. We have also succeeded in assessing the knowledge of nurses working in the operating room. The goal was met. An interesting finding was that most of anesthetic nurses and perioperative nurses had responded that the structural and technical arrangement in the operating room was not satisfactory in terms of barrier nursing of a patient with MRSA. This problem was expected, owing to the author´s experience in operating theaters. Thus Hypothesis 1 is confirmed. In total five hypotheses were stated, four of which were confirmed and one was disproved. The aim of the thesis was to draw attention to problems in the operating room during nursing a patient with MRSA. In the course of the research work there were no problems, however, it is necessary to mention the lack of literature on MRSA with regard to nursing care in operating theaters. The theoretical section of this thesis could be recommended as a resource for the education plan created on the basis of information collected and the results of this research. The results of the research survey may serve for general public, anesthesia and perioperative nurses who could benefit from the educational plan in practice while providing nursing care for a patient with MRSA.