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  1. Autoresuscitation describes the return of spontaneous circulation after termination of resuscitation (TOR) following cardiac arrest (CA). We aimed to identify phenomena that may lead to autoresuscitation and t...

    Authors: Les Gordon, Mathieu Pasquier, Hermann Brugger and Peter Paal
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:14
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. In Sweden the surgical surge capacity for mass casualty incidents (MCI) is managed by county councils within their dedicated budget. It is unclear whether healthcare budget constraints have affected the region...

    Authors: Magnus Blimark, Per Örtenwall, Hans Lönroth, Peter Mattsson, Kenneth D. Boffard and Yohan Robinson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:12
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  3. Guidelines recommend endotracheal intubation in trauma patients with a Glasgow coma scale (GCS) < 9 because of the loss of airway reflexes and consequential risk of airway obstruction. However, in patients wit...

    Authors: Thomas C. Sauter, Katharina Rönz, Trevor Hirschi, Beat Lehmann, Christopher Hütt, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos and Martin Müller
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:11
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  4. This systematic review and meta-analysis was designed to determine whether video laryngoscope (VL) compared with direct laryngoscope (DL) could reduce the occurrence of adverse events associated with tracheal ...

    Authors: Jia Jiang, Na Kang, Bo Li, An-Shi Wu and Fu-Shan Xue
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. Resuscitative thoracotomy is a damage control procedure with an established role in the immediate treatment of patients in extremis or cardiac arrest secondary to cardiac tamponade however Its role in resuscit...

    Authors: Michael Hughes and Zane Perkins
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:9
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  6. There is little published data investigating non-invasive cardiac output monitoring in the emergency department (ED). We assess here the accuracy of five non-invasive methods in detecting fluid responsiveness ...

    Authors: David McGregor, Shrey Sharma, Saksham Gupta, Shanaz Ahmed and Tim Harris
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:8
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  7. Prehospital care has changed in recent decades. Advanced assessments and decisions are made early in the care chain. Patient assessments form the basis of a decision relating to prehospital treatment and the l...

    Authors: Kristoffer Wibring, Carl Magnusson, Christer Axelsson, Peter Lundgren, Johan Herlitz and Magnus Andersson Hagiwara
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:7
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  8. Nonspecific complaint (NSC) is a common presenting complaint in the emergency setting, especially in the elderly population. Individual studies have shown that it is associated with significant morbidity and m...

    Authors: Kirsi Kemp, Reija Mertanen, Mitja Lääperi, Leila Niemi-Murola, Lasse Lehtonen and Maaret Castren
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Fibrinogen concentrate (FC) is frequently used to treat bleeding trauma patients, although the clinical effects are not well known. In this study we describe demographic and clinical outcome data in a cohort o...

    Authors: Lou M. Almskog, Ulf Hammar, Agneta Wikman, Anders Östlund, Jonas Svensson, Michael Wanecek and Anna Ågren
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:5
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  10. Disaster resilience is an essential personal characteristics of health rescue workers to respond to disasters in an effective manner, and maintain a state of adaptation after deployment. It is essential for di...

    Authors: Xiaorong MAO, Alice Yuen LOKE and Xiuying HU
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:4
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  11. Therapeutic hypothermia has been recommended for eligible patients after cardiac arrest (CA) in order to improve outcomes. Up to now, several comparative observational studies have evaluated the combined use o...

    Authors: Xi Chen, Zhen Zhen, Jia Na, Qin Wang, Lu Gao and Yue Yuan
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:3
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  12. The International Commission on Radiological Protection’s (ICRP) justification principles state that an examination is justified if the potential benefit outweighs the risk for radiation harm. Computer tomogra...

    Authors: Anna Bågenholm, Trond Dehli, Stig Eggen Hermansen, Kristian Bartnes, Marthe Larsen and Tor Ingebrigtsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:2
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  13. According to the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), the trigger words used by callers that are associated with cardiac arrest constitute a scientific knowledge gap. This study was design...

    Authors: Joonas Tamminen, Erik Lydén, Jan Kurki, Heini Huhtala, Antti Kämäräinen and Sanna Hoppu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:1
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  14. A factor-based coagulation management following major trauma is recommended as standard of care by the European Trauma Treatment Guidelines. However, concerns about the thromboembolic risk of this approach are...

    Authors: Anais L. Stein, Julian Rössler, Julia Braun, Kai Sprengel, Patrick E. Beeler, Donat R. Spahn, Alexander Kaserer and Philipp Stein
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:117
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  15. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the most urgent and critical step in the rescue of patients with cardiac arrest. However, only about 10% of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survive to discharge. S...

    Authors: Mao Wang, Xiaoguang Lu, Ping Gong, Yilong Zhong, Dianbo Gong and Yi Song
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:116
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Several reports indicate gender disparities in health care provision. There is a well-documented male patient dominance in intensive care unit (ICU) admittance. It is not established if this difference reflect...

    Authors: Emma Larsson, Ann-Charlotte Lindström, Mikael Eriksson and Anders Oldner
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:115
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  17. Educating lay public can significantly strengthen the Chain of Survival after out of hospital cardiac arrest. Schoolchildren are an accessible population for learning basic life support (BLS) and use of an aut...

    Authors: Vesna Borovnik Lesjak, Andrej Šorgo and Matej Strnad
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:114
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  18. To date, the decision to set up therapeutic extra-corporeal life support (ECLS) in hypothermia-related cardiac arrest is based on the potassium value only. However, no information is available about how the an...

    Authors: M. Pasquier, M. Blancher, S. Buse, B. Boussat, G. Debaty, M. Kirsch, M. de Riedmatten, P. Schoettker, T. Annecke and P. Bouzat
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:113
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  19. In Europe, survival rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) vary widely. Presence/absence and differences in implementation of systems dispatching First Responders (FR) in order to arrive before Emer...

    Authors: Iris Oving, Siobhan Masterson, Ingvild B.M. Tjelmeland, Martin Jonsson, Federico Semeraro, Mattias Ringh, Anatolij Truhlar, Diana Cimpoesu, Fredrik Folke, Stefanie G. Beesems, Rudolph W. Koster, Hanno L. Tan and Marieke T. Blom
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:112
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  20. The national early warning score (NEWS) enables early detection of in-hospital patient deterioration and timely activation of hospital’s rapid response team (RRT). NEWS was updated in 2017 to include a separat...

    Authors: Joonas Tirkkonen, Sari Karlsson and Markus B. Skrifvars
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:111
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  21. Time-saving is constantly sought after in the Emergency Department (ED), and Point-of-Care (POC) testing has been shown to be an effective time-saving intervention. However, when direct costs are compared, the...

    Authors: Lara Nicole Goldstein, Mike Wells and Craig Vincent-Lambert
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:110
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  22. The 2015 AHA guidelines recommend that amiodarone should be used for patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF). However, the optimal time interval between the incoming call and amiodarone adminis...

    Authors: Dong Keon Lee, Yu Jin Kim, Giwoon Kim, Choung Ah. Lee, Hyung Jun Moon, Jaehoon Oh, Hae Chul Yang, Han Joo Choi, Young Taeck Oh and Seung Min Park
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:109
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2020 28:23

  23. Treatment of blunt splenic injury has changed over the past decades. Nonoperative management (NOM) is the treatment of choice. Adequate patient selection is a prerequisite for successful NOM. Impaired mental s...

    Authors: Michel Teuben, Roy Spijkerman, Taco Blokhuis, Roman Pfeifer, Henrik Teuber, Hans-Christoph Pape and Luke Leenen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:108
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  24. The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report some important biases in a recently published Article. We agreed with the notion by Yamamoto et al. that the effects of epinephrine regarding was limited with...

    Authors: Makoto Aoki and Toshikazu Abe
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:107
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  25. Considering the significant morbidity and mortality of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, only little data on survival or quality of life after successful resuscitation is available in Europe. Additionally, econo...

    Authors: Raphael Ruch, Laura Stoessel, Philipp Stein, Michael Thomas Ganter and Daniel Anthony Button
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:106
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  26. Accidental hypothermia (AH) is defined as an involuntary decrease in core body temperature to < 35 °C. The management of AH has been progressing over the last few decades, and numerous techniques for rewarming...

    Authors: Makoto Watanabe, Tasuku Matsuyama, Sachiko Morita, Naoki Ehara, Nobuyoshi Miyamae, Yohei Okada, Takaaki Jo, Yasuyuki Sumida, Nobunaga Okada, Masahiro Nozawa, Ayumu Tsuruoka, Yoshihiro Fujimoto, Yoshiki Okumura, Tetsuhisa Kitamura and Bon Ohta
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:105
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  27. Tourniquet is the most widely used and effective first-aid equipment for controlling hemorrhage of injured limb in battlefield. However, time-out application of tourniquets leads to ischemic-necrosis of skelet...

    Authors: Changmei Weng, Kai Lan, Tao Li, Liangchao Zhang, Jianmin Wang and Xinan Lai
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:104
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  28. Severe accidental hypothermia (AH) is life threatening. Thus, prognostic prediction in AH is essential to rapidly initiate intensive care. Several studies on prognostic factors for AH are known, but none have ...

    Authors: Kenji Kandori, Yohei Okada, Tasuku Matsuyama, Sachiko Morita, Naoki Ehara, Nobuhiro Miyamae, Takaaki Jo, Yasuyuki Sumida, Nobunaga Okada, Makoto Watanabe, Masahiro Nozawa, Ayumu Tsuruoka, Yoshihiro Fujimoto, Yoshiki Okumura, Tetsuhisa Kitamura and Ryoji Iiduka
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:103
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  29. A national Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) was introduced in Denmark in 2014 to ensure the availability of physician-led critical care for all patients regardless of location.

    Authors: Karen Alstrup, Thea Palsgaard Møller, Lars Knudsen, Troels Martin Hansen, Jens Aage Kølsen Petersen, Leif Rognås and Charlotte Barfod
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:102
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  30. Coma of unknown etiology (CUE) is a major challenge in emergency medicine. CUE is caused by a wide variety of pathologies that require immediate and targeted treatment. However, there is little empirical data ...

    Authors: Wolf Ulrich Schmidt, Christoph J. Ploner, Maximilian Lutz, Martin Möckel, Tobias Lindner and Mischa Braun
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:101
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  31. The emergency medical healthcare system outside hospital varies greatly across the globe - even within the western world. Within the last ten years, the demand for emergency medical service systems has increas...

    Authors: Tim Alex Lindskou, Søren Mikkelsen, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, Poul Anders Hansen, Gitte Jørgensen, Ole Mazur Hendriksen, Hans Kirkegaard, Peter Anthony Berlac and Morten Breinholt Søvsø
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:100
    Content type: Review Published on:

  32. Traumatic brain injuries continue to be a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Most traumatic brain injuries are classified as mild, with a low but not negligible risk of intracranial hemorr...

    Authors: Sebastian Svensson, Tomas Vedin, Linus Clausen, Per-Anders Larsson and Marcus Edelhamre
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:99
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  33. Sepsis is defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated inflammation following an infection. However, the impact of this definition on patient care is not fully clear. This study invest...

    Authors: Jenny Klimpel, Lorenz Weidhase, Michael Bernhard, André Gries and Sirak Petros
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:98
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  34. Resuscitation efforts for traumatic patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are not always futile. Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DA-CPR) during emergency calls could increase t...

    Authors: Chien-Hsin Lu, Pin-Hui Fang and Chih-Hao Lin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:97
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  36. The population of the Kingdom of Bhutan is scattered in small villages throughout the eastern Himalaya. Infants born prematurely in villages have no access to neonatal intensive care until they are transported...

    Authors: Charles Haviland Mize, Lhab Dorji and Ken Zafren
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:95
    Content type: Case report Published on:

    The Editorial to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:96

  37. Access to an Emergency Medical Communication Centre is essential for the population in emergency situations. Handling inbound calls without delay requires managing activity, process and outcome measures of the...

    Authors: Yann Penverne, Brice Leclere, Eric Lecarpentier, Jean-Sébastien Marx, Benjamin Gicquel, Laurent Goix and Paul-Georges Reuter
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:94
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  38. Studies have shown that providing adequate ventilation during CPR is essential. While hypoventilation is often feared by most caregivers on the scene, the most critical problem remains hyperventilation. We dev...

    Authors: Abdo Khoury, Alban De Luca, Fatimata S. Sall, Lionel Pazart and Gilles Capellier
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:93
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  39. Chest pain is a frequent reason for calls in emergency medical communication centre (EMCC). Detecting a coronary origin by phone is a challenge. This is especially so as the presentations differ according to g...

    Authors: Paul-Georges Reuter, Catherine Pradeau, Samantha Huo Yung Kai, Thibault Lhermusier, Arnaud Bourdé, Eric Tentillier, Xavier Combes, Vanina Bongard, Jean-Louis Ducassé and Sandrine Charpentier
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:92
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  40. The Basic-Trauma Management (BTM) course has been taught to third-year medical students in small groups for many years without substantial changes. With the introduction of a new curriculum for Swiss medical s...

    Authors: Joana Berger-Estilita, Sabine Nabecker and Robert Greif
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:91
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  41. For neonates and children requiring decompression of tension pneumothorax, specific recommendations for the choice of needle type and size are missing. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine opti...

    Authors: Georg Leonhard, Daniel Overhoff, Lucas Wessel, Tim Viergutz, Marcus Rudolph, Michael Schöler, Holger Haubenreisser and Tom Terboven
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:90
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  42. Making ethically sound treatment limitations in prehospital care is a complex topic. Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) physicians were surveyed on their experiences with limitations of care orders in...

    Authors: Heidi Kangasniemi, Piritta Setälä, Heini Huhtala, Antti Kämäräinen, Ilkka Virkkunen, Joonas Tirkkonen, Arvi Yli-Hankala and Sanna Hoppu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:89
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  43. Much effort has been made to explore how patients with advanced chronic illness and their families experience care when they attend the Emergency Department, and many studies have investigated how healthcare p...

    Authors: Silvia Di Leo, Sara Alquati, Cristina Autelitano, Massimo Costantini, Gianfranco Martucci, Francesco De Vincenzo, Beata Kuczynska, Alessandra Morini, Laura Trabucco, Raffaella Ursicelli, Gianluca Catania and Luca Ghirotto
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:88
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  44. Children form a specific group of patients, as there are significant differences between children and adults in both anatomy and physiology. Difficult airway may be unanticipated or anticipated. Difficulties e...

    Authors: Wojciech Walas, Dawid Aleksandrowicz, Maria Kornacka, Tomasz Gaszyński, Ewa Helwich, Marek Migdał, Andrzej Piotrowski, Grażyna Siejka, Tomasz Szczapa, Alicja Bartkowska-Śniatkowska and Zenon P. Halaba
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:87
    Content type: Guideline Published on:

  45. A reduction in pre-hospital scene time for patients with penetrating trauma is associated with reduced mortality, when combined with appropriate hospital triage. This study investigated the relationship betwee...

    Authors: Alan Cowley, Mark Durham, Duncan Aldred, Richard Crabb, Paul Crouch, Adam Heywood, Andy McBride, Julia Williams and Richard Lyon
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:86
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  47. Chest pain is common in acute ambulance transports. This study aims to characterize and compare ambulance-transported chest pain patients to non-chest pain patients and evaluate if patient characteristics and ...

    Authors: Claus Kjær Pedersen, Carsten Stengaard, Kristian Friesgaard, Karen Kaae Dodt, Hanne Maare Søndergaard, Christian Juhl Terkelsen and Morten Thingemann Bøtker
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:84
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  48. A debate regarding the potential harmful effects of rigid neck collar and backboard usage among prehospital and hospital care providers in Norway provoked the development of an evidence-based guideline. “The N...

    Authors: Nina Øye Thorvaldsen, Lars Didrik Flingtorp, Torben Wisborg and Elisabeth Jeppesen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:83
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  49. Multilevel uncertainty exists in the treatment of devastating brain injury and variation in end-of-life decision-making is a concern. Cognitive and emotional doubt linked to making challenging decisions have n...

    Authors: Annette Robertsen, Eirik Helseth, Jon Henrik Laake and Reidun Førde
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:81
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  50. Pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia and tracheal intubation are life-saving interventions in trauma patients. However, there is evidence suggesting that the risks associated with both procedures outweigh the be...

    Authors: Philipp Schwaiger, Herbert Schöchl, Daniel Oberladstätter, Helmut Trimmel and Wolfgang G. Voelckel
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:80
    Content type: Original research Published on:

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