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Ingela Thylen

Affiliated Researcher, Docent

I am an adjunct senior lecturer and associate professor at the Division of Nursing and Reproductive Health. My research is within the area of cardiovascular nursing.

Presentation

Educational assignments
I mainly work in the specialist nursing programs where I lecture, supervise, and examine projects at advanced level. In recent years, I have also been responsible for the master programme leading to an advanced nurse practitioner in surgical care.

I combine my adjunct at LiU with a position within Region Östergötland where I’m specialized in the pacemaker and ICD area and meet patients and family members who suffers from different rhythm disturbances.

Research
I defended my doctoral thesis in 2006 in the field of pre-hospital behaviour in acute myocardial infarction and have since then continued to study how the actions of patients, family members and the healthcare organization can affect the outcome for the patient in different ways. I have a special focus on what it is like to suffer from a sudden cardiac arrest, and how to live and die with an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD). Here, too, I am interested in the perspectives of the patient, family member, and healthcare professionals.

My research also include experiences of suffering from spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) and how it affects physical and psychological wellbeing, and how the healthcare organization can organize rehabilitation in the best possible way. Together with other researchers and doctoral students, we also study various interventions to promote self-care, and improve and support the life situation in heart failure patients and their family members. Currently, I’m the main supervisor to three PhD students and co-supervisor to two PhD students.

Publications

Michael Glikson, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Mads Brix Kronborg, Yoav Michowitz, Angelo Auricchio, Israel Moshe Barbash, Jose A. Barrabes, Giuseppe Boriani, Frieder Braunschweig, Michele Brignole, Haran Burri, Andrew J. S. Coats, Jean-Claude Deharo, Victoria Delgado, Gerhard-Paul Diller, Carsten W. Israel, Andre Keren, Reinoud E. Knops, Dipak Kotecha, Christophe Leclercq, Bela Merkely, Christoph Starck, Ingela Thylén, Maria Tolosana (2022)

Europace , Vol.24 , s.71-164 Continue to DOI

Annette Waldemar, Anders Bremer, Anna Holm, Anna Strömberg, Ingela Thylén (2021)

Resuscitation , Vol.165 , s.23-30 Continue to DOI

Maria Ericsson, Karin H. Angerud, Margareta Brannstrom, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Anna Strömberg, Ingela Thylén (2019)

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing , Vol.18 , s.545-553 Continue to DOI

2026

C. Hermansson, Ingela Thylen, B. Grossmann (2026) Reliability and Validity of the Swedish Version of the Parents' Postoperative Pain Measure (PPPM-S): A Cross-Sectional Psychometric Study Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, Vol. 40, Article e70236 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/scs.70236
Karin Alpkvist, Sofia Stenberg, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Sabina Borg, Eva Swahn, Ingela Thylen (2026) Patients' perceptions of physical activity and cardiac rehabilitation after spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD): a focus group study in Sweden BMJ Open, Vol. 16, Article e116811 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2026-116811
Annette Waldemar, Anders Bremer, Johan Israelsson, Katarina Heimburg, Per Nordberg, Erik Blennow Nordström, Kristofer Årestedt, Ingela Thylen (2026) Cardiac Arrest Survivors' Perspectives to Inform the Co-Design of a Web-Based Support and Learning Platform: Qualitative Content Analysis JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, Vol. 28, Article e84432 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/84432
Susanne Ahlstedt Karlsson, Jenny Helleblad, Hanna Jarbrink, Ingela Thylen, My Engstrom (2026) Navigating missed nursing care in surgical wards: Nurses' experiences and strategies for improvement - A focus group study Applied Nursing Research, Vol. 89, Article 152084 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2026.152084
Annette Waldemar, Johan Israelsson, Katarina Heimburg, Erik Blennow Nordstrom, Per Nordberg, Anders Bremer, Kristofer Arestedt, Ingela Thylen (2026) CARDIS (Cardiac ARrest DIgital Support): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a web-based support intervention for cardiac arrest survivors Resuscitation Plus, Vol. 28, Article 101235 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2026.101235

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