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  1. Trauma is the leading cause of death in young people with an injury related mortality rate of 47.6/100,000 in European high income countries. Early deaths often result from rapidly evolving and deteriorating s...

    Authors: Sigune Peiniger, Thomas Paffrath, Manuel Mutschler, Thomas Brockamp, Matthew Borgmann, Philip C Spinella, Bertil Bouillon and Marc Maegele
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:78
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  2. Trauma tertiary surveys (TTS) are advocated to reduce the rate of missed injuries in hospitalized trauma patients. Moreover, the missed injury rate can be a quality indicator of trauma care performance. Curren...

    Authors: Gerben B Keijzers, Georgios F Giannakopoulos, Chris Del Mar, Fred C Bakker and Leo MG Geeraedts Jr
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:77
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Although there is a major need to record and analyse presenting complaints in emergency departments (EDs), no international standard exists. The aim of the present study was to produce structured complaint cla...

    Authors: Tomi Malmström, Olli Huuskonen, Paulus Torkki and Raija Malmström
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:76
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  4. The prevalence of cardiac arrest among patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage [SAH], and the prevalence of SAH as the cause following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest [OHCA] or in-hospital cardiac arrest [IHCA] ...

    Authors: Markus B Skrifvars and Michael J Parr
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:75
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. The aim of the study was to evaluate the long-term outcome of patients successfully resuscitated from pre-hospital cardiac arrest with initial pulseless electrical activity (PEA), because the long-term outcome...

    Authors: Sini Saarinen, Antti Kämäräinen, Tom Silfvast, Arvi Yli-Hankala and Ilkka Virkkunen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:74
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  6. In newborn resuscitation the recommended rate of chest compressions should be 90 per minute and 30 ventilations should be delivered each minute, aiming at achieving a total of 120 events per minute. However, t...

    Authors: Anne L Solevåg, Jorunn Marie Madland, Espen Gjærum and Britt Nakstad
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:73
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  7. Implementation of new guidelines into clinical practice is often incomplete. Direct mail is a simple way of providing information to physicians and may improve implementation of new guidelines on basic life su...

    Authors: Niels Secher, Mette Marie Mikkelsen, Kasper Adelborg, Ronni Mikkelsen, Erik Lerkevang Grove, Jens Mørch Rubak, Peter Vedsted and Bo Løfgren
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:72
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  8. Time is a crucial factor in an emergency department and the effectiveness of diagnosing depends on, among other things, the accessibility of rapid reported laboratory test results; i.e.: a short turnaround tim...

    Authors: Birgitte Nørgaard and Christian Backer Mogensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:71
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  9. In patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) reperfusion therapy should be initiated as soon as possible. This study evaluated whether use of a helicopter for transportation of patients is assoc...

    Authors: Lars Knudsen, Carsten Stengaard, Troels Martin Hansen, Jens Flensted Lassen and Christian Juhl Terkelsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:70
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  10. Hyperglycemia following major trauma is a well know phenomenon related to stress-induced systemic reaction. Reports on glucose level management in patients with head trauma have been published, but the develop...

    Authors: Manuela Bonizzoli, Giovanni Zagli, Chiara Lazzeri, Sara Degl’Innocenti, Gianfranco Gensini and Adriano Peris
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:69
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  11. Care of the polytrauma patient does not end in the operating room or resuscitation bay. The patient presenting to the intensive care unit following initial resuscitation and damage control surgery may be far f...

    Authors: Roger F Shere-Wolfe, Samuel M Galvagno Jr and Thomas E Grissom
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:68
    Content type: Review Published on:

  12. A common feature of prehospital emergency care is the short and fragmentary patient encounters with increased demands for efficient and rapid treatment. Crucial decisions are often made and the premise is the ...

    Authors: Anna Abelsson and Lillemor Lindwall
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:67
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  13. Subspecialisation within general surgery has today reached further than ever. However, on-call time, an unchanged need for broad surgical skills are required to meet the demands of acute surgical disease and t...

    Authors: Fawzi al-Ayoubi, Helen Eriksson, Pär Myrelid, Conny Wallon and Peter Andersson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:66
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  14. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a significant public health problem in most westernized industrialized nations. In spite of national and international guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ...

    Authors: Gordon A Ewy
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:65
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Traditionally, surgical diseases including emergency and injury care have garnered less attention and support internationally when compared to other medical specialties. Over the past decade however, healthcar...

    Authors: Joseph V Sakran, Sarah E Greer, Evan Werlin and Maureen McCunn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:64
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Many injury severity scoring tools have been developed over the past few decades. These tools include the Injury Severity Score (ISS), New ISS (NISS), Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) and International...

    Authors: Hideo Tohira, Ian Jacobs, David Mountain, Nick Gibson and Allen Yeo
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:63
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. This study prospectively assesses clinical characteristics and management of consecutive minimal, mild and moderate head injury patients referred for CT scans. Compliance with the Scandinavian head injury guid...

    Authors: Ingrid Haavde Strand, Ole Solheim, Kent Gøran Moen and Anne Vik
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:62
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  18. To validate the role of high mobility group box-1(HMGB1) in diagnosis of acute appendicitis (AA) with different pathological severity.

    Authors: Chuanxin Wu, Hang Sun, Hongliang Wang, Junmeng Chi, Qi Liu, Hui Guo and Jianping Gong
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:61
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  19. To compare the Sliding with Non-sliding lag screw of a gamma nail in the treatment of A1 and A2 AO-OTA intertrochanteric fractures.

    Authors: Yi Zhu, Severin Meili, Changqing Zhang, Congfeng Luo and Bing-fang Zeng
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:60
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  20. The use of mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has great potential for the clinical setting. The purpose of present study is to compare the hemodynamics and ventilation during and after the load-dis...

    Authors: Shuo Wang, Jun-Yuan Wu and Chun-Sheng Li
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:59
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  21. Disaster medicine is a fairly young scientific discipline and there is a need for the development of new methods for evaluation and research. This includes full-scale disaster exercisers. A standardized concep...

    Authors: Monica Rådestad, Heléne Nilsson, Maaret Castrén, Leif Svensson, Anders Rüter and Dan Gryth
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:58
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  22. The management of emergency departments (EDs) principally involves maintaining effective patient flow and care. Different triage models are used today to achieve these two goals. The aim of this study was to c...

    Authors: Lena Burström, Martin Nordberg, Göran Örnung, Maaret Castrén, Tony Wiklund, Marie-Louise Engström and Mats Enlund
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:57
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. The outcome of severely injured or ill patients can be time dependent. Short activation and approach times for emergency medical service (EMS) units are widely recognized to be important quality indicators. Th...

    Authors: Iztok Tomazin, Miljana Vegnuti, John Ellerton, Oliver Reisten, Guenther Sumann and Janko Kersnik
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:56
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  24. Drowning is a major source of mortality and morbidity in children worldwide. Neurocognitive outcome of children after drowning incidents cannot be accurately predicted in the early course of treatment. Therefo...

    Authors: Pertti K Suominen and Raisa Vähätalo
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:55
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome are clinical entities of multi-factorial origin frequently seen in traumatically injured patients requiring intensive care. We performed an unsystemati...

    Authors: Magdalena Bakowitz, Brandon Bruns and Maureen McCunn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:54
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Effective delivery of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and prompt defibrillation following sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is vital. Updated guidelines for adult basic life support (BLS) were published in 2010 ...

    Authors: Christopher M Jones, Andrew Owen, Christopher J Thorne and Jonathan Hulme
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:53
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  27. Recently, computed tomography (CT) has gained importance in the early diagnostic phase of trauma care in the emergency room. We implemented a new trauma workflow concept with CT in our emergency room that allo...

    Authors: Daiki Wada, Yasushi Nakamori, Kazuma Yamakawa and Satoshi Fujimi
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:52
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  28. Venous gas embolism is common after laparoscopic surgery but is only rarely of clinical relevance. We present a 52 year old woman undergoing laparoscopic treatment for liver cysts, who also underwent cholecyst...

    Authors: Thomas Kjeld, Egon G Hansen, Nana G Holler, Henrik Rottensten, Ole Hyldegaard and Eric C Jansen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:51
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Immobilisation of the cervical spine is a common procedure following traumatic injury. This is often precautionary as the actual incidence of spinal injury is low. Nonetheless, stabilisation of the head and ne...

    Authors: Sarah Voss, Michael Page and Jonathan Benger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:50
    Content type: Review Published on:

  30. Changes in poisoning trends may affect both complications and outcomes in patients with acute poisoning. This study reports the treatments given and the frequency of complications, also related to treatment, m...

    Authors: Cathrine Lund, Per Drottning, Birgitte Stiksrud, Javad Vahabi, Marianne Lyngra, Ivind Ekeberg, Dag Jacobsen and Knut Erik Hovda
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:49
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  31. There is still a considerable delay between the onset of symptoms and arrival at a stroke unit for most patients with acute stroke.

    Authors: Ingela Wennman, Paula Klittermark, Johan Herlitz, Bodil Lernfelt, Mats Kihlgren, Claes Gustafsson and Per-Olof Hansson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:48
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  32. Hemorrhage remains a major cause of potentially preventable deaths. Trauma and massive transfusion are associated with coagulopathy secondary to tissue injury, hypoperfusion, dilution, and consumption of clott...

    Authors: Pär I Johansson, Jakob Stensballe and Sisse R Ostrowski
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:47
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Catheter angiography is often arranged when vascular contrast extravasations on computed tomography (VCEC) presents after blunt torso trauma. However, catheter angiograph can be negative for bleeding and furth...

    Authors: Kuo-Ching Yuan, Yon-Cheong Wong, Being-Chung Lin, Shih-Ching Kang, Erh-Hao Liu and Yu-Pao Hsu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:46
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  34. Rapid developments in intensive care medicine have made mechanical ventilation an essential method in the resuscitation and comprehensive treatment of critical care patients. This study aimed to develop and ev...

    Authors: Hong Li, Li-Li Chen and Na Li
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:45
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  35. In emergency situations, it is important for the trauma team to efficiently communicate their observations and assessments. One common communication strategy is “closed-loop communication”, which can be descri...

    Authors: Maritha Jacobsson, Maria Hargestam, Magnus Hultin and Christine Brulin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:44
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  36. On 6 April 2009, at 03:32 local time, an Mw 6.3 earthquake hit the Abruzzi region of central Italy causing widespread damage in the City of L Aquila and its nearby villages. The earthquake caused 308 casualtie...

    Authors: Chiara Angeletti, Cristiana Guetti, Roberta Papola, Emiliano Petrucci, Maria Laura Ursini, Alessandra Ciccozzi, Francesca Masi, Maria Rosaria Russo, Salvatore Squarcione, Antonella Paladini, Joseph Pergolizzi, Robert Taylor Jr, Giustino Varrassi and Franco Marinangeli
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:43
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  37. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition where the risk of death has been reported to be even higher than that associated with the major complications of atherosclerosis, i.e. myocardial infarction and stroke. I...

    Authors: Johan Herlitz, Angela Bång, Birgitta Wireklint-Sundström, Christer Axelsson, Anders Bremer, Magnus Hagiwara, Anders Jonsson, Lars Lundberg, Björn-Ove Suserud and Lars Ljungström
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:42
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. Severe sepsis is a medical emergency affecting up to 18 million individuals world wide, with an annual incidence of 750,000 in North America alone. Mortality ranges between 28-50% of those individuals stricken...

    Authors: Sarah M Perman, Munish Goyal and David F Gaieski
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:41
    Content type: Review Published on:

  40. The aim of this paper was to conduct a systematic review of the published literature to address the question: “In pre-hospital adult cardiac arrest (asystole, pulseless electrical activity, pulseless Ventricul...

    Authors: Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Kevin E Mackey, Zhong Cheng Zhang, Hideharu Tanaka, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma, Robert Swor and Sang Do Shin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:39
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. This study was designed to compare the effectiveness of using auscultation, pH measurements of gastric aspirates, and ultrasonography as physical examination methods to verify nasogastric tube(NGT) placement i...

    Authors: Hyung Min Kim, Byung Hak So, Won Jung Jeong, Se Min Choi and Kyu Nam Park
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:38
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  42. The quality of external chest compressions (ECC) is of primary importance within basic life support (BLS). Recent guidelines delineate the so-called 4“-step approach” for teaching practical skills within resus...

    Authors: Saša Sopka, Henning Biermann, Rolf Rossaint, Sebastian Knott, Max Skorning, Jörg C Brokmann, Nicole Heussen and Stefan K Beckers
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:37
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  43. In former studies from North America early Do-Not–Resuscitate orders (DNR orders) in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) had negative prognostic impact on mortality. The influence of DNR orders on fu...

    Authors: Marco Brizzi, Kasim Abul-Kasim, Mattis Jalakas, Eufrozina Selariu, Hélène Pessah-Rasmussen and Elisabet Zia
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:36
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  44. Most trauma patients visit the hospital via the emergency department. They are at high risk for tetanus infection because many trauma patients are wounded. Tetanus immunity in the Korean population has been re...

    Authors: Young-Hoon Yoon, Sung-Woo Moon, Sung-Hyuk Choi, Young-Duck Cho, Jung-Youn Kim and Young Ho Kwak
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:35
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  45. Ambulance personnel play an essential role in the ‘Chain of Survival’. The prognosis after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was dismal on a rural Danish island and in this study we assessed the cardiopulmonary r...

    Authors: Anne Møller Nielsen, Dan Lou Isbye, Freddy Knudsen Lippert and Lars Simon Rasmussen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:34
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  46. Right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in acute pulmonary embolism (APE) can be assessed with helical computerized tomography (CT) and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Signs of RVD and elevated natriuretic p...

    Authors: Mia K Laiho, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Marit Graner, Anneli Piilonen, Merja Raade and Pirjo Mustonen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:33
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  47. The Scandinavian guidelines for management of minimal, mild and moderate head injuries were developed to provide safe and cost effective assessment of head injured patients. In a previous study conducted one y...

    Authors: Ben Heskestad, Knut Waterloo, Tor Ingebrigtsen, Bertil Romner, Marianne Efskind Harr and Eirik Helseth
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:32
    Content type: Original research Published on:

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