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  1. The European HEMS and Air ambulance Committee’s Medical working group recently published Best Practice advice on pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia and advanced airway management. We believe that this initiati...

    Authors: Jostein S. Hagemo, Per P. Bredmose, Halvard Stave, Marius Rehn and Christian Buskop
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:33
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  2. Arterial blood gas analysis is an important diagnostic tool in managing critically ill patients within the hospital. Whether prehospital application of this diagnostic modality contributes to more exact diagno...

    Authors: Stine T. Zwisler, Yecatarina Zincuk, Caroline B. Bering, Aleksander Zincuk, Mads Nybo and Søren Mikkelsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:32
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  3. A female survival advantage after injury has been observed, and animal models of trauma have suggested either hormonal or genetic mechanisms as component causes. Our aim was to compare age and risk-adjusted se...

    Authors: Robert Larsen, Denise Bäckström, Mats Fredrikson, Ingrid Steinvall, Rolf Gedeborg and Folke Sjoberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:24
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  4. While the incidence and aspects of pneumonia in ICU patients has been extensively discussed in the literature, studies on the occurrence of pneumonia in severely injured patients are rare. The aim of the prese...

    Authors: Sebastian Wutzler, Felix M. Bläsius, Philipp Störmann, Thomas Lustenberger, Michael Frink, Marc Maegele, Matthias Weuster, Jörg Bayer, Michael Caspers, Andreas Seekamp, Ingo Marzi, Hagen Andruszkow and Frank Hildebrand
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:31
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  5. There is little published data investigating non-invasive cardiac output monitoring in the emergency department (ED). We assessed six non-invasive fluid responsiveness monitoring methods which measure cardiac ...

    Authors: D. McGregor, S. Sharma, S. Gupta, S. Ahmad, T. Godec and Tim Harris
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:30
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  6. Intraosseous (IO) access is a recommended method when venous access cannot be rapidly established in an emergency. Experimental data suggest that major hemorrhage and catecholamine administration both reduce b...

    Authors: Mats Eriksson, Anders Larsson, Miklós Lipcsey and Gunnar Strandberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:29
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  7. The outcome of status epilepticus (SE) can be improved by facilitating early recognition and treatment with antiepileptic drugs. The purpose of this study was to analyze the treatment delay of SE in a prospect...

    Authors: Joni J. Sairanen, Anne-Mari Kantanen, Harri T. Hyppölä and Reetta K. Kälviäinen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:28
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  8. No consensus based national standard for interhospital transports of critically ill patients exists in Norway. The local hospitals are responsible for funding, organizing and performing these transports, resul...

    Authors: Helge Eiding, Ulf E. Kongsgaard and Anne-Cathrine Braarud
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:27
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  9. In France, while most babies are delivered at hospital, emergency medical services (EMS) weekly manage calls for unplanned out-of-hospital births. The objective of our study was to describe neonatal morbidity ...

    Authors: François Javaudin, Valérie Hamel, Arnaud Legrand, Sybille Goddet, François Templier, Christine Potiron, Philippe Pes, Gilles Bagou and Emmanuel Montassier
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:26
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  10. Acute coagulopathy is a well-known predictor of poor outcomes in patients with severe trauma. However, using coagulation and fibrinolytic markers, how one can best predict mortality to find out potential candi...

    Authors: Kenta Ishii, Takahiro Kinoshita, Kazutaka Kiridume, Atsushi Watanabe, Kazuma Yamakawa, Shota Nakao, Satoshi Fujimi and Tetsuya Matsuoka
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:25
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  11. Airway management and use of intravenous anaesthetics to facilitate tracheal intubation after major trauma remains controversial. Numerous agents are available and used for pre-hospital rapid-sequence inductio...

    Authors: Arasch Wafaisade, Michael Caspers, Bertil Bouillon, Matthias Helm, Matthias Ruppert and Michael Gäßler
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:23
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  12. We describe a case where inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) was successfully initiated during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a younger patient with cardiac arrest related to pulmonary hypertension after dissem...

    Authors: Per P. Bredmose, Christian Buskop and Anne Birthe Lømo
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:22
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  13. The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report a strategy to reduce time waiting for emergency calls in a dispatch center, in line with a recently published article that reviewed evidence for medical dispa...

    Authors: Yann Penverne, Michel Terré, François Javaudin, Joël Jenvrin, Frédéric Berthier, Julien Labady, Brice Leclere and Emmanuel Montassier
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:21
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  14. Emergency airway management (AM) is a major key for successful resuscitation of critically ill non-traumatic (CINT) patients. Details of the AM of these patients in German emergency departments (ED) are unknow...

    Authors: Michael Bernhard, Sönke Nils Bax, Thomas Hartwig, Maryam Yahiaoui-Doktor, Sirak Petros, Sven Bercker, Alexandra Ramshorn-Zimmer and André Gries
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:20
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  15. In bacteremia the majority of bacterial species are killed by oxidation on the surface of erythrocytes and digested by local phagocytes in the liver and the spleen. Sepsis-causing bacteria overcome this mechan...

    Authors: Hayk Minasyan
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:19
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Prehospital undertriage occurs when the required level of care for a major trauma patient is underestimated and the patient is transported to a lower-level emergency care facility. One possible reason is that ...

    Authors: Helen Fagerlind, Lara Harvey, Stefan Candefjord, Johan Davidsson and Julie Brown
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:18
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  17. Human external cargo (HEC) extrication during helicopter rescue missions is commonly used in mountain emergency medical services. Furthermore, longline or winch operations offer the opportunity to deliver prof...

    Authors: Urs Pietsch, Giacomo Strapazzon, Dimitri Ambühl, Volker Lischke, Simon Rauch and Jürgen Knapp
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:17
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  18. Little evidence suggest that female gender is associated with a lower risk of mortality in severely injured patients, especially in premenopausal women. Previous clinical studies have shown contradictory resul...

    Authors: M. Pape, G. F. Giannakópoulos, W. P. Zuidema, E. S. M. de Lange-Klerk, E. J. Toor, M. J. R. Edwards, M. H. J. Verhofstad, T. N. Tromp, E. M. M. van Lieshout, F. W. Bloemers and L. M. G. Geeraedts
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:16
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  19. Intravenous access in critically ill and injured patients can be difficult or impossible in the field. Intraosseous access is a well-established alternative to achieve access to a noncollapsible vascular netwo...

    Authors: Renate Sørgjerd, Geir Arne Sunde and Jon-Kenneth Heltne
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:15
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  20. We read the article “Risks and benefits of hypotensive resuscitation in patients with traumatic hemorrhagic shock: a meta-analysis” by Natthida Owattanapanich et al. with great interest and found it to be insi...

    Authors: Kai-Hung Ho, Yih-Wen Tarng, Yi-Pin Chou and Hsing-Lin Lin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:14
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  21. A high number of denied or cancelled HEMS missions are caused by poor weather conditions especially during winter season. Furthermore, many helicopter manufacturers have denied their helicopters to be operated...

    Authors: Ilkka Pulkkinen, Jari Pirnes, Ari Rissanen and Päivi Laukkanen-Nevala
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:13
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  22. Training in teamwork behaviour improves technical resuscitation performance. However, its effect on patient outcome is less clear, partly because teamwork behaviour is difficult to measure. Furthermore, it is ...

    Authors: Julia Freytag, Fabian Stroben, Wolf E. Hautz, Stefan K. Schauber and Juliane E. Kämmer
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:12
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  23. Prehospital acute pain is a frequent symptom that is often inadequately managed. The concerns of opioid induced side effects are well-founded. To ensure patient safety, ambulance personnel are therefore provid...

    Authors: Kristian D. Friesgaard, Hans Kirkegaard, Claus-Henrik Rasmussen, Matthias Giebner, Erika F. Christensen and Lone Nikolajsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:11
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  24. Hand hygiene (HH), a cornerstone in infection prevention and control, lacks quality in emergency medical services (EMS). HH improvement includes both individual and institutional aspects, but little is known a...

    Authors: Heidi Storm Vikke, Svend Vittinghus, Martin Betzer, Matthias Giebner, Hans Jørn Kolmos, Karen Smith, Maaret Castrén, Veronica Lindström, Marja Mäkinen, Heini Harve and Christian Backer Mogensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:10
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  25. Patients with isolated traumatic brain injury (TBI) are likely to benefit from effective prehospital care to prevent secondary brain injury. Only a few studies have focused on the impact of advanced interventi...

    Authors: Toni Pakkanen, Jouni Nurmi, Heini Huhtala and Tom Silfvast
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:9
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  27. Studies on penetrating injuries in Europe are scarce and often represent data from single institutions. The aim of this study was to describe the incidence and demographic features of patients hospitalized for...

    Authors: Una Johannesdottir, Gudrun Maria Jonsdottir, Bergros K. Johannesdottir, Alexandra Aldis Heimisdottir, Elias Eythorsson, Tomas Gudbjartsson and Brynjolfur Mogensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:7
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  28. Effective and timely airway management is a priority for sick and injured patients. The benefit and conduct of pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia (PHEA) and advanced airway management remains controversial but...

    Authors: Kate Crewdson, David Lockey, Wolfgang Voelckel, Peter Temesvari and Hans Morten Lossius
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:6
    Content type: Guideline Published on:

  29. Avalanche emergency response should address current accident scenarios to optimize survival chances of victims and to keep rescuers safe. The purpose of this article is to present a basis for evaluation and ne...

    Authors: Albert Lunde and Christen Tellefsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:5
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  30. The long-term treatment trends of splenic injuries can provide guidance when treating trauma patients. The nonoperative management (NOM) of splenic injuries was introduced in early 1989. After decades of devel...

    Authors: Chien-An Liao, Yu-Tung Wu, Chien-Hung Liao, Shang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chi-Hsun Hsieh, Shao-Wei Chen, Ching-Chang Chen, An-Hsun Chou and Chi-Tung Cheng
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:4
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  31. Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability with effective treatment, including thrombolysis or thrombectomy, being time-critical for favourable outcomes. While door-to-needle time in hospital has been o...

    Authors: Nicolas Drenck, Søren Viereck, Josefine Stokholm Bækgaard, Karl Bang Christensen, Freddy Lippert and Fredrik Folke
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:3
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  32. The provision of safe, high quality healthcare in the Emergency Department (ED) requires frontline healthcare personnel with sufficient competence in clinical leadership. However, healthcare education curricul...

    Authors: Sissel Eikeland Husebø and Øystein Evjen Olsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:2
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  33. Deficient non-technical skills (NTS) among providers of critical care in helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) is a threat to patient and operational safety. Skills can be improved through simulation-ba...

    Authors: Kristen Rasmussen, Henrik Langdalen, Stephen J. M. Sollid, Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen, Leif Inge K. Sørskår, Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik and Håkon B. Abrahamsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2019 27:1
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  34. In patients who call for the emergency medical service (EMS), there is a knowledge gap with regard to the final assessment after arriving at hospital and its association with field assessment.

    Authors: Carl Magnusson, Christer Axelsson, Lena Nilsson, Anneli Strömsöe, Monica Munters, Johan Herlitz and Magnus Andersson Hagiwara
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:111
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  35. The technique of tube thoracostomy has been standardized for years without significant updates. Alternative procedural methods may be beneficial in certain prehospital and inpatient environments with limited r...

    Authors: Byron C. Drumheller, Anthony Basel, Sakib Adnan, Joseph Rabin, Jason D. Pasley, Jason Brocker and Samuel M. Galvagno Jr
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:110
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  36. H2S can also protect nerve cells. The objective of the study is to investigate the effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on the expressions of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its receptors, tyrosine prot...

    Authors: Jiyan Lin, Weicheng Wu, Zhihong Xu, Siyao Liu, Wang Lu and Mandong Pan
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:109
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  37. Cardiac arrest is more common in men than women and a few studies have shown inferior 30-day survival for men than for women. The difference might relate to patient characteristics, intra arrest factors or pos...

    Authors: Angelika Qvick, Manar Radif, Caroline Brever, Jenny Olsson Myrvik, Karin Schenk Gustafsson and Therese Djärv
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:108
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  38. Damage control strategies play an important role in trauma patient management. One such strategy, hypotensive resuscitation, is being increasingly employed. Although several randomized controlled trials have r...

    Authors: Natthida Owattanapanich, Kaweesak Chittawatanarat, Thoetphum Benyakorn and Jatuporn Sirikun
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:107
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  39. We systematically reviewed the literature to investigate whether gasping could predict short and long outcomes in patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

    Authors: Qiang Zhang, Bo Liu, Zhijiang Qi and Chunsheng Li
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:106
    Content type: Review Published on:

  40. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in severe burns and can lead to significantly poorer outcomes. Although the prognosis has improved in recent decades, the mortality of AKI remains considerabl...

    Authors: I. Rakkolainen, J. V. Lindbohm and J. Vuola
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:105
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  41. Monitoring cardiac output (CO) in shocked patients provides key etiological information and can be used to guide fluid resuscitation to improve patient outcomes. Previously this relied on invasive monitoring, ...

    Authors: Benjamin Mothibe Bussmann, William Hulme, Andrew Tang and Tim Harris
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:104
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  42. Severe intoxication with carbon monoxide (CO) is extremely lethal and causes numerous deaths due to cardiac or respiratory failure. Conventional intensive treatment may not be sufficient. The aim of this study...

    Authors: Carsten Simonsen, Sigridur O. Magnusdottir, Jan J. Andreasen, Marianne Cathrine Rohde and Benedict Kjærgaard
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:103
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  43. Head injury and exsanguination are the leading causes of death in trauma patients. Hemorrhagic shock triggers systemic endothelial glycocalyx breakdown, potentially leading to traumatic endotheliopathy (EoT). ...

    Authors: Erika Gonzalez Rodriguez, Jessica C. Cardenas, Charles S. Cox, Ryan S. Kitagawa, Jakob Stensballe, John B. Holcomb, Pär I. Johansson and Charles E. Wade
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:102
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  44. Authors: Kristi G. Bache, Marius Rehn and Julian Thompson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:101
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:57

  45. Major haemorrhage is a leading cause of mortality following major trauma. Increasingly, Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in the United Kingdom provide pre-hospital transfusion with blood products, ...

    Authors: J. E. Griggs, J. Jeyanathan, M. Joy, M. Q. Russell, N. Durge, D. Bootland, S. Dunn, E. D. Sausmarez, G. Wareham, A. Weaver and R. M. Lyon
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:100
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  46. Authors: Roland Bingisser and Christian H Nickel
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:99
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:60

  47. Patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with pulseless electrical activity (PEA) as initial cardiac rhythm are not always treated in intensive care units (ICUs): some are admitted to h...

    Authors: Sini SAARINEN, Ari SALO, James BOYD, Päivi LAUKKANEN-NEVALA, Catharina SILFVAST, Ilkka VIRKKUNEN and Tom SILFVAST
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:98
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  48. This study was performed to gain insights into novel therapeutic approaches for acute systemic inflammation in heatstroke. Bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BMMNCs) secrete anti-inflammatory proteins and ...

    Authors: Yutaka Umemura, Hiroshi Ogura, Hiroshi Matsuura, Takeshi Ebihara, Kentaro Shimizu and Takeshi Shimazu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:97
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  49. Training lay rescuers in Basic Life Support (BLS) is essential to improve bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rates; in addition, simple methods are needed to provide feedback on CPR performance. Thi...

    Authors: Johanna van Dawen, Lina Vogt, Hanna Schröder, Rolf Rossaint, Lina Henze, Stefan K. Beckers and Saša Sopka
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:96
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  50. Measures to improve the accuracy of determining survival and intensive care unit (ICU) admission using the International Classification of Injury Severity Score (ICISS) are not often conducted on a population-...

    Authors: Rebecca J. Mitchell, Hsuen P. Ting, Tim Driscoll and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2018 26:95
    Content type: Original research Published on:

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