Skip to main content

Articles

Page 36 of 42

  1. Neuron specific enolase (NSE) has repeatedly been evaluated for neurological prognostication in patients after cardiac arrest. However, it is unclear whether current guidelines for NSE cutoff levels also apply...

    Authors: Christian Storm, Jens Nee, Achim Jörres, Christoph Leithner, Dietrich Hasper and Christoph J Ploner
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:6
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  2. Formalized trauma systems have shown beneficial effects on patient survival and have harvested great recognition among health care professionals. In spite of this, the implementation of trauma systems is chall...

    Authors: Thomas Kristiansen, Kjetil G Ringdal, Tarjei Skotheimsvik, Halvor K Salthammer, Christine Gaarder, Pål A Næss and Hans M Lossius
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:5
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  4. On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shooting spree incident in Norway. This article describes the emergency medical service (EMS) response elicited by the two inc...

    Authors: Stephen JM Sollid, Rune Rimstad, Marius Rehn, Anders R Nakstad, Ann-Elin Tomlinson, Terje Strand, Hans Julius Heimdal, Jan Erik Nilsen and Mårten Sandberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:3
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  5. Early intramedullary nailing (IMN) of long bone fractures in severely injured patients has been evaluated as beneficial, but has also been associated with increased inflammation, multi organ failure (MOF) and ...

    Authors: Elisabeth E Husebye, Torstein Lyberg, Helge Opdahl, Trude Aspelin, Ragnhild Ø Støen, Jan Erik Madsen and Olav Røise
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:2
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  6. Most patients with acute poisoning are treated as outpatients worldwide. In Oslo, these patients are treated in a physician-led outpatient clinic with limited diagnostic and treatment resources, which reduces ...

    Authors: Cathrine Lund, Odd M Vallersnes, Dag Jacobsen, Oivind Ekeberg and Knut E Hovda
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:1
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  7. Using blood lactate monitoring for risk assessment in the critically ill patient remains controversial. Some of the discrepancy is due to uncertainty regarding the appropriate reference interval, and whether t...

    Authors: Ole Kruse, Niels Grunnet and Charlotte Barfod
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:74
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. Single-pass, whole-body computed tomography (pan-scan) remains a controversial intervention in the early assessment of patients with major trauma. We hypothesized that a liberal pan-scan policy is mainly an in...

    Authors: Martin Hutter, Alexander Woltmann, Christian Hierholzer, Christian Gärtner, Volker Bühren and Dirk Stengel
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:73
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  9. In Scandinavia, emergency department triage and patient flow processes, are under development. In Sweden, the triage development has resulted in two new triage scales, the Adaptive Process Triage and the Medic...

    Authors: Nasim Farrokhnia and Katarina E Göransson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:72
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  10. Physician-staffed pre-hospital units are employed in many Western emergency medical services (EMS) systems. Although these services usually integrate well within their EMS, little is known about the quality of...

    Authors: Andreas J Krüger, David Lockey, Jouni Kurola, Stefano Di Bartolomeo, Maaret Castrén, Søren Mikkelsen and Hans Morten Lossius
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:71
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  11. Teamwork has been suggested as a promising approach to improving care processes in emergency departments (ED). However, for teamwork to yield expected results, implementation must involve behavior changes. The...

    Authors: Pamela Mazzocato, Helena Hvitfeldt Forsberg and Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:70
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  12. Fluid resuscitation following burn injury must support organ perfusion with the least amount of fluid necessary and the least physiological cost. Under resuscitation may lead to organ failure and death. With a...

    Authors: Frederick W Endorf and David J Dries
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:69
    Content type: Review Published on:

  13. We evaluated the validity of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) in elderly emergency department (ED) patients. In particular, we examined the sensitivity and specificity of the CTAS for identifying el...

    Authors: Ju Young Lee, Sang Hoon Oh, Eun Hee Peck, Jung Min Lee, Kyu Nam Park, Soo Hyun Kim and Chun Song Youn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:68
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  14. Severely injured trauma patients are exposed to clinically significant radiation doses from computed tomography (CT) imaging in the emergency department. Moreover, this radiation exposure is associated with an...

    Authors: Soo Hyun Kim, Seung Eun Jung, Sang Hoon Oh, Kyu Nam Park and Chun Song Youn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:67
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  15. Esophageal perforation is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition. Early clinical suspicion and imaging is important for case management to achieve a good outcome. However, recent studies continue to...

    Authors: Jon Arne Søreide and Asgaut Viste
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:66
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Intraosseous (IO) access represents a reliable alternative to intravenous vascular access and is explicitly recommended in the current guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council when intravenous access i...

    Authors: Richard Schalk, Uwe Schweigkofler, Gösta Lotz, Kai Zacharowski, Leo Latasch and Christian Byhahn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:65
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  17. Severe injury induces an acute coagulopathy associated with increased mortality. This study compared the Thrombelastography (TEG) and biomarker profiles upon admission in trauma patients.

    Authors: Sisse R Ostrowski, Anne Marie Sørensen, Claus F Larsen and Pär I Johansson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:64
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  18. We report the case of a 28-year old rock climber who survived an "unsurvivable" injury consisting of a vertical free fall from 300 feet onto a solid rock surface. The trauma mechanism and injury kinetics are a...

    Authors: Sebastian Weckbach, Michael A Flierl, Michael Blei, Clay Cothren Burlew, Ernest E Moore and Philip F Stahel
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:63
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  19. Trauma is a major - and increasing - cause of death, especially in low- and middle income countries. In all countries rural areas are especially hard hit, and the distribution of physicians is skewed towards c...

    Authors: Torben Wisborg, Thapelo R Montshiwa and Charles Mock
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:62
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  20. Major trauma has been reported to be a major cause of hospitalization and intensive care utilization worldwide and consumes a significant amount of the health care budget. The aim of this study was to describe...

    Authors: Phillipo L Chalya, Japhet M Gilyoma, Ramesh M Dass, Mabula D Mchembe, Michael Matasha, Joseph B Mabula, Nkinda Mbelenge and William Mahalu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:61
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  21. Supraglottic airway devices have frequently been shown to facilitate airway management and are implemented in the ILCOR resuscitation algorithm. Limited data exists concerning laypersons without any medical or...

    Authors: Gereon Schälte, Christian Stoppe, Meral Aktas, Mark Coburn, Steffen Rex, Marlon Schwarz, Rolf Rossaint and Norbert Zoremba
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:60
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  22. Prevention and treatment of hypothermia by active warming in prehospital trauma care is recommended but scientifical evidence of its effectiveness in a clinical setting is scarce. The objective of this study w...

    Authors: Peter Lundgren, Otto Henriksson, Peter Naredi and Ulf Björnstig
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:59
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  23. Cardiac arrest affects 30-35, 000 hospitalised patients in the UK every year. For these patients to be given the best chance of survival, high quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) must be delivered, how...

    Authors: Gavin D Perkins, Robin P Davies, Sarah Quinton, Sarah Woolley, Fang Gao, Ben Abella, Nigel Stallard and Matthew W Cooke
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:58
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  24. Physician-manned emergency medical teams supplement other emergency medical services in some countries. These teams are often selectively deployed to patients who are considered likely to require critical care...

    Authors: Espen Fevang, David Lockey, Julian Thompson and Hans Morten Lossius
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:57
    Content type: Original research Published on:

    The Editorial to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:101

  25. Airway management is of essential importance in emergency care. Training and skill retention of endotracheal intubation (ETI) - the technique considered as the "gold standard" -, poses a problem especially amo...

    Authors: Jouni Kurola, Heikki Paakkonen, Tapio Kettunen, Juha-Pekka Laakso, Jouko Gorski and Tom Silfvast
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:56
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  26. Interruption in chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be characterized as no flow ratio (NFR) and the importance of minimizing these pauses in chest compression has been highlighted recen...

    Authors: Frederik Mondrup, Mikkel Brabrand, Lars Folkestad, Jakob Oxlund, Karsten R Wiborg, Niels P Sand and Torben Knudsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:55
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  27. The treatment of trauma victims is a complex multi-professional task in a stressful environment. We previously found that trauma team members perceive leadership as the most important human factor. The aim of ...

    Authors: Amund Hovengen Ringen, Magnus Hjortdahl and Torben Wisborg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:54
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  28. Checklists are common in some medical fields, including surgery, intensive care and emergency medicine. They can be an effective tool to improve care processes and reduce mortality and morbidity. Despite the s...

    Authors: Øyvind Thomassen, Ansgar Espeland, Eirik Søfteland, Hans Morten Lossius, Jon Kenneth Heltne and Guttorm Brattebø
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:53
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  29. Exsanguination due to uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of potentially preventable deaths among trauma patients. About one third of trauma patients present with coagulopathy on admission, which is ass...

    Authors: Kristin B Nystrup, Nis A Windeløv, Annemarie B Thomsen and Pär I Johansson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:52
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  30. Temporary abdominal closure (TAC) is included in most published damage control (DC) and abdominal compartment (ACS) protocols. TAC is associated with a range of complications and the optimal method remains to ...

    Authors: Sigrid Groven, Pål A Næss, Erik Trondsen and Christine Gaarder
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:51
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  31. The early use of reperfusion therapy has a significant effect on the prognosis of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), and it is recommended that emergency department (ED) physicia...

    Authors: Soo Hyun Kim, Sang Hoon Oh, Seung Pill Choi, Kyu Nam Park, Young Min Kim and Chun Song Youn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:50
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  32. Emergency Departments (ED) have a high flow of patients and time is often crucial. New technologies for laboratory analysis have been developed, including Point of Care Technologies (POCT), which can reduce th...

    Authors: Christian B Mogensen, Anders Borch and Ivan Brandslund
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:49
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  33. To investigate how callers understand the information given by telephone by registered nurses in a casualty clinic, to what degree the advice was followed, and the final outcome of the condition for the patients.

    Authors: Elisabeth Holm Hansen and Steinar Hunskaar
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:48
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  34. Surprisingly little is known about the most efficient organization of admissions to an emergency hospital. It is important to know, who should be in front when the GP requests an acute admission. The aim of th...

    Authors: Christian B Mogensen, Anne Mette M Mortensen and Peter B Staehr
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:47
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  35. The aim of this study was to measure chest compression decay during simulated advanced life support (ALS) in a cardiac arrest manikin model.

    Authors: Conrad A Bjørshol, Kjetil Sunde, Helge Myklebust, Jörg Assmus and Eldar Søreide
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:46
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  36. Trauma patients are customarily transported in the supine position to protect the spine. The Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, and Exposure (ABCDE) principles clearly give priority to airways. In Nor...

    Authors: Sabina Fattah, Guri R Ekås, Per Kristian Hyldmo and Torben Wisborg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:45
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  37. Report a nationwide epidemic of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O103:H25 causing hemolytic uremic syndrome (D+HUS) in children.

    Authors: Lars Krogvold, Thore Henrichsen, Anna Bjerre, Damien Brackman, Henrik Dollner, Helga Gudmundsdottir, Gaute Syversen, Pål Aksel Næss and Hans Jacob Bangstad
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:44
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  38. Overcrowding in emergency departments is a worldwide problem. A systematic literature review was undertaken to scientifically explore which interventions improve patient flow in emergency departments.

    Authors: Sven Oredsson, Håkan Jonsson, Jon Rognes, Lars Lind, Katarina E Göransson, Anna Ehrenberg, Kjell Asplund, Maaret Castrén and Nasim Farrohknia
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:43
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Emergency department (ED) triage is used to identify patients' level of urgency and treat them based on their triage level. The global advancement of triage scales in the past two decades has generated conside...

    Authors: Nasim Farrohknia, Maaret Castrén, Anna Ehrenberg, Lars Lind, Sven Oredsson, Håkan Jonsson, Kjell Asplund and Katarina E Göransson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:42
    Content type: Review Published on:

  40. Accidental hypothermia increases mortality and morbidity in trauma patients. Various methods for insulating and wrapping hypothermic patients are used worldwide. The aim of this study was to compare the therma...

    Authors: Øyvind Thomassen, Hilde Færevik, Øyvind Østerås, Geir Arne Sunde, Erik Zakariassen, Mariann Sandsund, Jon Kenneth Heltne and Guttorm Brattebø
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:41
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  41. Accidents caused by motorized vehicle in the agricultural sector are frequently observed. In Turkey; accidents arising from motorized vehicles, named Pat-Pat, which are used by farmers in the Western Black Sea...

    Authors: Sami Karapolat, Ayhan Saritas, Hayati Kandis, Mehmet Cikman, Suat Gezer, Ismet Ozaydin, Abdulkadir Iskender, Cagatay Calikoglu, Davut Baltaci, Mustafa Uslu, Banu Karapolat and Talha Dumlu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:40
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  42. Psychiatric liaison services are rare in trauma units of various hospitals in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries. The occurrence of road traffic accidents (RTAs) resulting from low standard of roa...

    Authors: Obiora Iteke, Muideen O Bakare, Ahamefule O Agomoh, Richard Uwakwe and Jojo U Onwukwe
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:39
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  43. The Cerebral Performance Category (CPC) score is widely used in research and quality assurance to assess neurologic outcome following cardiac arrest. However, little is known about the inter- and intra-reviewe...

    Authors: Kamal Ajam, Laura S Gold, Stacey S Beck, Susan Damon, Randi Phelps and Thomas D Rea
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:38
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  44. Quality improvement initiatives in emergency medicine (EM) often suffer from a lack of benchmarking data on the quality of care. The objectives of this study were twofold: 1. To assess the feasibility of colle...

    Authors: Ulf Ekelund, Lisa Kurland, Fredrik Eklund, Paulus Torkki, Anna Letterstål, Per Lindmarker and Maaret Castrén
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:37
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  45. Alternatives to endotracheal intubation (ETI) are required when access to the cranial end of the patient is restricted. In this study, the success rate and time duration of standard intubation techniques were ...

    Authors: Anders R Nakstad and Mårten Sandberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:36
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  46. Rapid fluid administration is often required for resuscitation when patients are admitted in emergency department with hypovolemic shock or excessive blood loss. Various methods have been described earlier to ...

    Authors: Dheeraj Kapoor and Manpreet Singh
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:35
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  47. Bowel entrapment within a pelvic injury is rare and difficult to diagnose. Usually, it is diagnosed late because of concomitant abdominal injuries. It may present itself as an acute intestinal obstruction or, ...

    Authors: Ewan D Ritchie, Eelco J Veen, Jan Olsman and Koop Bosscha
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:34
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. A recent paper has drawn attention to the paucity of widely accepted quality indicators for trauma care. At the same time, several studies have measured whether mortality of trauma patients changes between nor...

    Authors: Stefano Di Bartolomeo
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:33
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  49. To describe the organization of an ECMO-centre from triage by telephone to the phase of inter-hospital transportation with ECMO of patients affected by H1N1-induced ARDS, describing techniques and equipment used.

    Authors: Marco Ciapetti, Giovanni Cianchi, Giovanni Zagli, Cesare Greco, Andrea Pasquini, Rosario Spina, Stefano Batacchi, Manuela Bonizzoli, Massimo Bonacchi, Chiara Lazzeri, Pasquale Bernardo and Adriano Peris
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:32
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  50. In critically ill patients intravascular volume status and pulmonary edema need to be quantified as soon as possible. Many critically ill patients undergo a computed tomography (CT)-scan of the thorax after ad...

    Authors: Bernd Saugel, Konstantin Holzapfel, Jens Stollfuss, Tibor Schuster, Veit Phillip, Caroline Schultheiss, Roland M Schmid and Wolfgang Huber
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:31
    Content type: Original research Published on:

Official journal of

Affiliated Societies

Danish Resuscitation Council

Danish Resuscitation Council

Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee

Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee

Submit manuscript

Follow

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    3.3 - 2-year Impact Factor
    3.5 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.596 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.091 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    16 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    93 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    1,293,885 downloads
    2,248 Altmetric mentions

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

ISSN: 1757-7241