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  1. Vital signs are widely used in emergency departments. Previous studies on the association between vital signs and mortality in emergency departments have been restricted to selected patient populations. We aim...

    Authors: Malin Ljunggren, Maaret Castrén, Martin Nordberg and Lisa Kurland
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:21
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  2. The epidemiology of hypotension as presenting symptom among patients in the Emergency Department (ED) is not clarified. The aim of this study was to describe the incidence, etiology, and overall mortality of h...

    Authors: Jon G. Holler, Daniel P. Henriksen, Søren Mikkelsen, Court Pedersen and Annmarie T. Lassen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:20
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  4. Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) have been rarely studied from epidemiological approaches. The objective of this study is to establish the epidemiological profile of MCI in the autonomous region of the Principali...

    Authors: Rafael Castro Delgado, Cecilia Naves Gómez, Tatiana Cuartas Álvarez and Pedro Arcos González
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:18
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  6. Core body temperature is used to stage and guide the management of hypothermic patients, however obtaining accurate measurements of core temperature is challenging, especially in the pre-hospital context. The ...

    Authors: T. Deslarzes, V. Rousson, B. Yersin, B. Durrer and M. Pasquier
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:16
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  7. Systematic management of patients suffering high-risk symptoms is essential in emergency medical services. Patients with chest pain receive algorithm-based work-up and treatment. Though dyspnea is recognized a...

    Authors: Morten Thingemann Bøtker, Carsten Stengaard, Mikkel Strømgaard Andersen, Hanne Maare Søndergaard, Karen Kaae Dodt, Troels Niemann, Hans Kirkegaard, Erika Frischknecht Christensen and Christian Juhl Terkelsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:15
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  8. Patient safety issues in pre-hospital care are poorly investigated. The aim of the planned study is to survey patient safety problems in pre-hospital care in Sweden.

    Authors: Magnus Andersson Hagiwara, Lena Nilsson, Anneli Strömsöe, Christer Axelsson, Anna Kängström and Johan Herlitz
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:14
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  9. Haemorrhagic shock is a major cause of death in the acute care setting. Since 2009, our emergency department has used intra-aortic balloon occlusion (IABO) catheters for resuscitative endovascular balloon occl...

    Authors: Junya Tsurukiri, Itsurou Akamine, Takao Sato, Masatsugu Sakurai, Eitaro Okumura, Mariko Moriya, Hiroshi Yamanaka and Shoichi Ohta
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:13
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:72

  10. The ratio of systolic blood pressure (SBP) to heart rate (HR), called the reverse shock index (RSI), is used to evaluate the hemodynamic stability of trauma patients. To minimize undertriage in emergency depar...

    Authors: Jung-Fang Chuang, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Shao-Chun Wu, Hang-Tsung Liu, Shiun-Yuan Hsu, Hsiao-Yun Hsieh, Yi-Chun Chen and Ching-Hua Hsieh
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:12
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  11. In 2013, Danish policy-makers on a nationwide level decided to set up a national quality of care database for hospital-based emergency care in Denmark including the selection of quality indicators. The aim of ...

    Authors: Michael Moesmann Madsen, Andreas Halgreen Eiset, Julie Mackenhauer, Annette Odby, Christian Fynbo Christiansen, Lisa Kurland and Hans Kirkegaard
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:11
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  12. The aim of this paper was to conduct a systematic review of the published literatures comparing the use of mechanical chest compression device and manual chest compression during cardiac arrest (CA) with respe...

    Authors: Hui Li, Dongping Wang, Yi Yu, Xiang Zhao and Xiaoli Jing
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:10
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  13. The ShockOmics study (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT02141607) is a multicenter prospective observational trial aimed at identifying new biomarkers of acute heart failure in circulatory shock, by means of a mul...

    Authors: Federico Aletti, Costanza Conti, Manuela Ferrario, Vicent Ribas, Bernardo Bollen Pinto, Antoine Herpain, Emiel Post, Eduardo Romay Medina, Cristina Barlassina, Eliandre de Oliveira, Roberta Pastorelli, Gabriella Tedeschi, Giuseppe Ristagno, Fabio S. Taccone, Geert W. Schmid-Schönbein, Ricard Ferrer…
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:9
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. Safety of emergency intubation may be improved by standardising equipment preparation; the efficacy of cognitive aids is unknown.

    Authors: Elliot Long, Patrick Fitzpatrick, Domenic R. Cincotta, Joanne Grindlay and Michael Joseph Barrett
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:8
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  15. Whole body computed tomography (WBCT) is an important adjunct in trauma care, which is often part of standard protocol in initial management of trauma patients. However, WBCT exposes patients to a significant ...

    Authors: Fredrik Linder, Kevin Mani, Claes Juhlin and Hampus Eklöf
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:7
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  16. The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with unfavourable outcome following stab wounds to the heart in order to improve selection of patients who may benefit from resuscitative effort.

    Authors: Mehdi Bamous, Abdou Abdessamad, Jawad Tadili, Ali Kettani and Mamoun Faroudy
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:6
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  17. The Hungarian Air Ambulance has recently adopted oxygen supplementation during laryngoscopy, also known as apneic preoxygenation, to prevent desaturation during rapid sequence intubation. Despite its simplicit...

    Authors: Attila Eross, Laszlo Hetzman, Andras Petroczy and Laszlo Gorove
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:5
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  18. Resuscitation after cardiac arrest (CA) in the catheterization laboratory (cath-lab) using mechanical chest compressions (CC) during simultaneous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a strong recommenda...

    Authors: Henrik Wagner, Bjarne Madsen Hardig, Malin Rundgren, David Zughaft, Jan Harnek, Matthias Götberg and Göran K. Olivecrona
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:4
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  19. The mortality rate of patients with hemodynamic instability due to severe pelvic fracture is reported to be 40–60 % despite a multidisciplinary treatment approach. Angioembolization and external fixation of th...

    Authors: Ji Young Jang, Hongjin Shim, Pil Young Jung, Seongyup Kim and Keum Seok Bae
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:3
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  20. In pre-hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) more research is needed to direct and underpin care delivery and inform policy. To target future research efforts, this study aimed to determine future research...

    Authors: Irene van de Glind, Sivera Berben, Fon Zeegers, Henk Poppen, Margreet Hoogeveen, Ina Bolt, Pierre van Grunsven and Lilian Vloet
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:2
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  21. The presentation of sepsis is varied and our hypotheses were that septic patients with non-specific presentations such as decreased general condition (DGC) have a less favourable outcome, and that a screening ...

    Authors: Ulrika Margareta Wallgren, Viktor Erik Antonsson, Maaret Kaarina Castrén and Lisa Kurland
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 24:1
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  23. GBS, MEWS, and PER scoring systems are not commonly used for patients presenting to emergency department with GIS bleeding. This study aimed to determine the value of MEWS, GBS, and PER scores in predicting bl...

    Authors: Seyran Bozkurt, Ataman Köse, Engin Deniz Arslan, Semra Erdoğan, Enver Üçbilek, İbrahim Çevik, Cüneyt Ayrık and Orhan Sezgin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:109
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  24. We assume that critically ill patients are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) based on their illness severity coupled with their co-morbidities. Patient attributes such as religion, nationality, socioeco...

    Authors: Emma Larsson, Erik Zettersten, Gabriella Jäderling, Anna Ohlsson and Max Bell
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:108
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  26. Patient crowding in emergency departments (ED) is a common challenge and associated with worsened outcome for the patients. Previous studies on biomarkers in the ED setting has focused on identification of hig...

    Authors: Louis Lind Plesner, Anne Kristine Servais Iversen, Sandra Langkjær, Ture Lange Nielsen, Rebecca Østervig, Peder Emil Warming, Idrees Ahmad Salam, Michael Kristensen, Morten Schou, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Jakob Lundager Forberg, Lars Køber, Lars S. Rasmussen, György Sölétormos, Bente Klarlund Pedersen and Kasper Iversen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:106
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. The aim of this study was a) To identify predictors of the use of aspirin in the pre-hospital setting in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and b) To analyze whether the use of any of the recommended medication...

    Authors: Rasmus Strandmark, Johan Herlitz, Christer Axelsson, Andreas Claesson, Anders Bremer, Thomas Karlsson, Maria Jimenez-Herrera and Annica Ravn-Fischer
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:105
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  28. During cardiac arrest, end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) monitoring is recommended as a chest compression performance indicator. However, its frequency of use during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and its b...

    Authors: Jiun-Jia Chen, Yi-Kung Lee, Sheng-Wen Hou, Ming-Yuan Huang, Chen-Yang Hsu and Yung-Cheng Su
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:104
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  29. The purpose of this series of cases was to analyse our management of orthopaedic trauma casualties in the Libyan civil war crisis in the European summer of 2014. We looked at both damage control orthopaedics a...

    Authors: Colin Ng, Max Mifsud, Joseph N. Borg and Colin Mizzi
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:103
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. Prehospital resuscitation for patients with major trauma emphasizes a load-and-go principle. For traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) patients, the administration of vasopressors remains under debate. This study eva...

    Authors: Wen-Chu Chiang, Shi-Yi Chen, Patrick Chow-In Ko, Ming-Ju Hsieh, Hui-Chih Wang, Edward Pei-Chuan Huang, Chih-Wei Yang, Kah-Meng Chong, Wei-Ting Chen, Shey-Ying Chen and Matthew Huei-Ming Ma
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:102
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  31. It is important to monitor the core temperature in a severely injured patient. The choice of method is controversial, and different thermometers and sites for measurement are used. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: O Uleberg, SC Eidstuen, G Vangberg and E Skogvoll
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:101
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  32. Tiered trauma team response may contribute to efficient in-hospital trauma triage by reducing the amount of resources required and by improving health outcomes. This study evaluates current practice of trauma ...

    Authors: Rolf E. Egberink, Harm-Jan Otten, Maarten J. IJzerman, Arie B. van Vugt and Carine J. M. Doggen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:100
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  33. Despite advances in therapeutic strategies and improved guidelines, morbidity and mortality rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remain high. Especially, neurological prognosis is one of the most im...

    Authors: Yoshihito Ogawa, Tadahiko Shiozaki, Tomoya Hirose, Mitsuo Ohnishi, Yasushi Nakamori, Hiroshi Ogura and Takeshi Shimazu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:99
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  34. Electrolyte imbalances are common among patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Cerebral salt wasting (CSW) is an electrolyte imbalance characterized by hyponatremia and hypovolemia. Differentiating the sy...

    Authors: Jan Leonard, Raymond E. Garrett, Kristin Salottolo, Denetta S. Slone, Charles W. Mains, Matthew M. Carrick and David Bar-Or
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:98
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. To identify the factors associated with the development of post-snakebite compartment syndrome (PSCS) in snakebite patients and to analyze the clinical prognosis of these patients.

    Authors: Chih-Po Hsu, Jung-Fang Chuang, Yu-Pao Hsu, Shang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yuan Fu, Kuo-Ching Yuan, Chih-Hao Chen, Shih-Ching Kang and Chien-Hung Liao
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:97
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  36. The susceptibility to adverse outcome from critical injury (occurrence of sepsis, septic shock, organ dysfunction/failure, and mortality) varies dramatically due to different degrees of inflammatory response. ...

    Authors: Dablu Lal Gupta, Predeep Kumar Nagar, Vineet Kumar Kamal, Sanjeev Bhoi and D. N. Rao
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:96
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  37. It remains uncertain whether neuromonitoring reliably predicts outcome in adult post-cardiac arrest patients in the early stage treated with therapeutic hypothermia. Recent reports demonstrated a regional cere...

    Authors: Kosaku Kinoshita, Atsushi Sakurai and Shingo Ihara
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:95
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  38. Opioid analgesics are used in most trauma systems, and only a few studies report on the use of ketamine for prehospital analgesia. In a low-cost rural trauma system in Iraq paramedics have been using prehospit...

    Authors: Ole Kristian Losvik, Mudhafar Kareem Murad, Eystein Skjerve and Hans Husum
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:94
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  39. Delay to surgery for patients with hip fracture is associated with higher incidence of post-operative complications, prolonged recovery and length of stay, and increased mortality. Therefore, many health care ...

    Authors: Pamela Mazzocato, Maria Unbeck, Mattias Elg, Olof Gustaf Sköldenberg and Johan Thor
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:93
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  40. Drowning patients may benefit from the advanced airway management capabilities that can be provided by physician staffed helicopter emergency medical services. The aim of this study is to describe paediatric d...

    Authors: Alan A. Garner, Claire L. Barker and Andrew D. Weatherall
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:92
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  41. Emergency medical services are an important part of trauma care, but data comparing urban and rural areas is needed. We compared 30-day mortality and length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay for trauma patient...

    Authors: Lasse Raatiniemi, Janne Liisanantti, Suvi Niemi, Heini Nal, Pasi Ohtonen, Harri Antikainen, Matti Martikainen and Seppo Alahuhta
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:91
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  42. Epitympanic temperature (Tty) measured with thermistor probes correlates with core body temperature (Tcore), but the reliability of measurements at low ambient temperature is unknown. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Giacomo Strapazzon, Emily Procter, Gabriel Putzer, Giovanni Avancini, Tomas Dal Cappello, Norbert Überbacher, Georg Hofer, Bernhard Rainer, Georg Rammlmair and Hermann Brugger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:90
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  43. This fall the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the European Cardiology Society (ESC) publish updated post resuscitation care guidelines. For these guidelines to have an impact they must be implemented ...

    Authors: Eldar Søreide and Alf Inge Larsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:89
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  44. A medical emergency call is citizens’ access to pre-hospital emergency care and ambulance services. Emergency medical dispatchers are gatekeepers to provision of pre-hospital resources and possibly hospital ad...

    Authors: Thea Palsgaard Møller, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup, Doris Østergaard, Søren Viereck, Jerry Overton, Fredrik Folke and Freddy Lippert
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:88
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  45. Patients with cardiac arrest have lower survival rates, when resuscitation performance is low. In In-hospital settings the first responders on scene are usually nursing staff without rhythm analysing skills. I...

    Authors: Thomas Wurmb, Tina Vollmer, Peter Sefrin, Martin Kraus, Oliver Happel, Christian Wunder, Andreas Steinisch, Norbert Roewer and Sebastian Maier
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:87
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  46. Although pain management is a fundamental aspect of care in emergency departments (EDs), inadequate treatment of pain is unfortunately common. There are multiple local protocols for pain assessment in the ED. ...

    Authors: Jostein Dale and Lars Petter Bjørnsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:86
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  47. Hemorrhage after blunt trauma is a major contributor to death after trauma. In the abdomen, an injured spleen is the most frequent cause of major bleeding. Splenectomy is historically the treatment of choice. ...

    Authors: Trond Dehli, Anna Bågenholm, Nora Christine Trasti, Svein Arne Monsen and Kristian Bartnes
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:85
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  48. Purified coagulation factor concentrates, such as fibrinogen concentrate (FC) and prothrombin complex concentrate (PCC) are increasingly used as haemostatic therapy for trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC). The i...

    Authors: Martin Ponschab, Wolfgang Voelckel, Michaela Pavelka, Christoph J. Schlimp and Herbert Schöchl
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:84
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  49. The objective of this investigation was to evaluate changes in intrathoracic pressure (Ppl), airway pressure (Paw) and vital organ perfusion pressures during standard and intrathoracic pressure regulation (IPR...

    Authors: Younghoon Kwon, Guillaume Debaty, Laura Puertas, Anja Metzger, Jennifer Rees, Scott McKnite, Demetris Yannopoulos and Keith Lurie
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:83
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  50. Hemodialysis (HD) treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (HD+ESRD) may increase the risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) after a head injury (HI) for which heparin is used. However, the results of noncontr...

    Authors: Hsin-Hung Chen, Chien-Chin Hsu, Shih-Feng Weng, Hung-Jung Lin, Jhi-Joung Wang, How-Ran Guo, Shih-Bin Su, Chien-Cheng Huang and Jiann-Hwa Chen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2015 23:82
    Content type: Original research Published on:

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