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  1. Pre-hospital critical care is considered to be a complex intervention with a weak evidence base. In quality improvement literature, the value equation has been used to depict the inevitable relationship betwee...

    Authors: Marius Rehn and Andreas J Krüger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:34
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  2. Abstracts presented at medical conferences or scientific meetings should ideally be published as full-text articles in peer-reviewed journals after initial presentation and feedback regardless of the findings....

    Authors: Anne Katrine Ravn, Dan Brun Petersen, Lars Folkestad, Peter Hallas and Mikkel Brabrand
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:33
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  3. Major trauma remains a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in young people and adolescents throughout the western world. Both the physical and psychological consequences of trauma are well documented ...

    Authors: Alan Cowley and Neal Durge
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:32
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. The 2010 Consensus on Science and Treatment Recommendations Statement recommended that short video/computer self-instruction courses, with minimal or no instructor coaching, combined with hands-on practice can...

    Authors: Tomoya Hirose, Taku Iwami, Hiroshi Ogura, Hisatake Matsumoto, Tomohiko Sakai, Kouji Yamamoto, Toshiaki Mano, Yuji Fujino and Takeshi Shimazu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:31
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  5. The current study was to investigate the blood glucose changes in ultra-acute phase in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and its associations with patient outcome.

    Authors: Hanna Vihonen, Ilkka Tierala, Markku Kuisma, Jyrki Puolakka, Jukka Westerbacka and Jouni Nurmi
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:30
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  6. We present two cases from the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in Denmark, in which prehospital physicians trained in cardiac ultrasound (FATE) disclosed significant pathology that induced a radica...

    Authors: Louise Kollander Jakobsen, Morten Thingemann Bøtker, Lars Peter Lawrence, Erik Sloth and Lars Knudsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:29
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. Recently, our group has proposed a new classification of hypovolemic shock based on the physiological shock marker base deficit (BD). The classification consists of four groups of worsening BD and correlates w...

    Authors: Manuel Mutschler, Ulrike Nienaber, Arasch Wafaisade, Thomas Brockamp, Christian Probst, Thomas Paffrath, Bertil Bouillon and Marc Maegele
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:28
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  8. Acute poisoning with gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) has been a serious medical and social problem in different parts of the world including Sweden. GHB is a drug of abuse which acts primarily as central nervous s...

    Authors: Margareta Warrén Stomberg, Kai Knudsen, Henrik Stomberg and Ingela Skärsäter
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:27
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  9. Major bile leak after blunt liver trauma is rare but challenging. It usually requires endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) for management. However, there is still lack of specific indications. The aim o...

    Authors: Kuo-Ching Yuan, Yon-Cheong Wong, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chee-Jen Chang, Shih-Ching Kang and Yu-Pao Hsu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:26
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  10. The first Danish Society for Emergency Medicine (DASEM) recommendations for the use of clinical ultrasound in emergency departments has been made. The recommendations describes what DASEM believes as being cur...

    Authors: Christian B Laursen, Klaus Nielsen, Minna Riishede, Gerhard Tiwald, Anders Møllekær, Rasmus Aagaard, Stefan Posth and Jesper Weile
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:25
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  11. Early recognition and immediate bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation are critical determinants of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Our aim was to evaluate current knowledge on basic lif...

    Authors: Anne Marie Roust Aaberg, Caroline Emilie Brenner Larsen, Bodil Steen Rasmussen, Carolina Malta Hansen and Jacob Moesgaaard Larsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:24
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  12. Acute viral bronchiolitis is one of the most common medical emergency situations in infancy, and physicians caring for acutely ill children will regularly be faced with this condition. In this article we prese...

    Authors: Knut Øymar, Håvard Ove Skjerven and Ingvild Bruun Mikalsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  13. High energy trauma is rare and, as a result, training of prehospital care providers often takes place during the real situation, with the patient as the object for the learning process. Such training could ins...

    Authors: Anna Abelsson, Ingrid Rystedt, Björn-Ove Suserud and Lillemor Lindwall
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:22
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability. In this study a new method to measure cell free DNA (CFD) for the management of TBI is tested. Our hypothesis was that CFD concentrations ...

    Authors: Gad Shaked, Amos Douvdevani, Silvia Yair, Alexander Zlotnik and David Czeiger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:21
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  15. Trauma is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in modern society, and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are the single leading cause of mortality among young adults. Pre-hospital acute care ma...

    Authors: Ann-Charlotte Falk, Annika Alm and Veronica Lindström
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:20
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  16. Delirium in emergency department (ED) patients occurs frequently and often remains unrecognized. Most instruments for delirium detection are complex and therefore unfeasible for the ED. The aims of this pilot ...

    Authors: Florian F Grossmann, Wolfgang Hasemann, Andreas Graber, Roland Bingisser, Reto W Kressig and Christian H Nickel
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:19
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  17. Securing high-quality mortality statistics requires systematic evaluation of all trauma deaths. We examined the proportion of trauma patients dying within 30 days from causes not related to the injury and the ...

    Authors: Poya Ghorbani, Magnus Falkén, Louis Riddez, Martin Sundelöf, Anders Oldner and Lovisa Strömmer
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:18
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  18. The Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine—which received its first Impact Factor in 2013—is extremely grateful for the time, hard work and support of its highly-qualified peer revie...

    Authors: Hans Morten Lossius, Kjetil Søreide and Kristi G Bache
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:4
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  19. Crowded departments are a common problem in Danish hospitals, especially in departments of internal medicine, where a large proportion of the patients are elderly. We therefore chose to investigate the number ...

    Authors: Sofie Strømgaard, Søren Wistisen Rasmussen and Thomas Andersen Schmidt
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:17
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  20. Despite the suggestion that the inflammatory response in traumatized children is functionally unique, prognostic markers predicting pediatric multiple organ failure are lacking. We intended to verify whether I...

    Authors: Hagen Andruszkow, Janika Fischer, Michael Sasse, Ulf Brunnemer, Julia Helga Karla Andruszkow, Axel Gänsslen, Frank Hildebrand and Michael Frink
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:16
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  21. Single-pass, contrast-enhanced whole body multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) emerged as the diagnostic standard for evaluating patients with major trauma. Modern iterative image algorithms showed high im...

    Authors: Dirk Stengel, Caspar Ottersbach, Thomas Kahl, Constanze Nikulka, Claas Güthoff, Thomas Hartel, Sophia Hünnebeck, Axel Ekkernkamp and Sven Mutze
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:15
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. Treating anaemia with red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is frequent, but controversial, in patients with septic shock. Therefore we assessed characteristics and outcome associated with RBC transfusion in this g...

    Authors: Ragnhild G Rosland, Marte U Hagen, Nicolai Haase, Lars B Holst, Morten Plambech, Kristian R Madsen, Peter Søe-Jensen, Lone M Poulsen, Morten Bestle and Anders Perner
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:14
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  23. Poisoning exposures continue to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The lack of facilities, treatment resources, and antidotes in hospitals may affect the treatments provided and outco...

    Authors: Sa’ed H Zyoud, Samah W Al-Jabi, Yara I Bali, Afnan M Al-Sayed, Waleed M Sweileh and Rahmat Awang
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:13
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  24. Venoarterial extracorporeal life support (VA-ECLS) is an effective support of acute hemodynamic collapse caused by miscellaneous diseases. However, using VA-ECLS for post-traumatic shock is controversial and m...

    Authors: Yuan-His Tseng, Tzu-I Wu, Yuan-Chang Liu, Pyng-Jing Lin and Meng-Yu Wu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:12
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  25. Traumatic hemorrhagic shock resulting in tissue hypoxia is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in polytraumatized patients. Early identification of tissue hypoxia is possible with microdialysis. The...

    Authors: Filip Burša and Leopold Pleva
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:11
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  26. Difficulties with prehospital intubations have encouraged the development of indirect laryngoscopy techniques, facilitating laryngeal visualization. Airtraq® is a relatively new single-use indirect laryngoscop...

    Authors: Mikael Gellerfors, Agneta Larsson, Christer H Svensén and Dan Gryth
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:10
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  27. Austrian out-of-hospital emergency physicians (OOHEP) undergo mandatory biannual emergency physician refresher courses to maintain their licence. The purpose of this study was to compare different reported eme...

    Authors: Henrik Fischer, Kaspar Bachmann, Guido Strunk, Stephanie Neuhold, Bernhard Zapletal, Claudia Maurer, Andrea Fast, Dominik Stumpf and Robert Greif
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:9
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  28. Structured reporting of major incidents has been advocated to improve the care provided at future incidents. A systematic review identified ten existing templates for reporting major incident medical managemen...

    Authors: Sabina Fattah, Marius Rehn, David Lockey, Julian Thompson, Hans Morten Lossius and Torben Wisborg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:5
    Content type: Original research Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:42

  29. Monitoring cardiovascular function in acutely ill patients in the emergency department (ED) is of paramount importance. Arterial pressure (AP) is usually monitored using intermittent oscillometric measurements...

    Authors: Julia Y Wagner, Julia S Prantner, Agnes S Meidert, Alexander Hapfelmeier, Roland M Schmid and Bernd Saugel
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:8
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  30. It is known that the risk of death in elderly patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury is increased. However, the relationship between mild traumatic brain injury and death has never been establ...

    Authors: Po-Liang Cheng, Hsin-Yi Lin, Yi-Kung Lee, Chen-Yang Hsu, Ching-Chih Lee and Yung-Cheng Su
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:7
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  31. Cold injuries are rare but important causes of hospitalization. We aimed to identify the magnitude of cold injury hospitalization, and assess causes, associated factors and treatment routines in a subarctic re...

    Authors: Helge Brändström, Göran Johansson, Gordon G Giesbrecht, Karl-Axel Ängquist and Michael F Haney
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:6
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  33. The 19 Norwegian Emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs) use Norwegian Index for medical emergency assistance (Index) as dispatch guidelines. Little is known about the use of Index, nor its validity. W...

    Authors: Eirin N Ellensen, Steinar Hunskaar, Torben Wisborg and Erik Zakariassen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:2
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  34. Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant health concern and a major burden for society. The period between trauma event and hospital admission in an emergency department (ED) could be a determinant...

    Authors: Sophia Tohme, Cecile Delhumeau, Mathias Zuercher, Guy Haller and Bernhard Walder
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014 22:1
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  36. In a mass casualty situation, medical personnel must rapidly assess and prioritize patients for treatment and transport. Triage is an important tool for medical management in disaster situations. Lack of commo...

    Authors: Maria Lampi, Tore Vikström and Carl-Oscar Jonson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:90
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  37. Priority grade assessment according to urgency level of the patients (triage) is considered vital in emergency medicine casualties. Little is known of the experiences of pre-hospital emergency medicine triage ...

    Authors: Sverre Rørtveit, Eivind Meland and Steinar Hunskaar
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:89
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  38. The primary aim of this study was to describe the frequency of pulmonary infiltrates on chest X-ray (CXR) during community acquired Gram-negative bacteremia at a single centre in Denmark.

    Authors: Hans Fjeldsøe-Nielsen, Kirsten Gjeraa, Birgitte G Berthelsen and Ram B Dessau
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:88
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  39. The aim of the study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care cardiac ultrasonography performed by a novice examiner against results from a specialist in cardiology with expert skills in echocar...

    Authors: Christian Alcaraz Frederiksen, Peter Juhl-Olsen, Niels Holmark Andersen and Erik Sloth
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:87
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  40. Ongoing improvements in trauma care now recommend earlier use of blood products as part of damage control resuscitation, but generally these products are not available at far forward battlefield locations. For...

    Authors: Wenjun Z Martini, Douglas S Cortez and Michael A Dubick
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:86
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  41. Large randomized trials on critically ill patients have related the use of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) to negative outcomes. In a recent comment we explained in detail why, from our point of view, transferring t...

    Authors: Daniel Chappell and Matthias Jacob
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:85
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  42. The ability of standard operating procedures to improve pre-hospital critical care by changing pre-hospital physician behaviour is uncertain. We report data from a prospective quality control study of the effe...

    Authors: Leif Rognås, Troels Martin Hansen, Hans Kirkegaard and Else Tønnesen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:84
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  43. Inappropriately cuffed tracheal tubes can lead to inadequate ventilation or silent aspiration, or to serious tracheal damage. Cuff pressures are of particular importance during aeromedical transport as they in...

    Authors: Falko Harm, Mathias Zuercher, Marco Bassi and Wolfgang Ummenhofer
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:83
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  44. A common dilemma in the management of pelvic fractures is recognizing the presence of associated abdominal injury. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between initial therapeutic interve...

    Authors: Morihiro Katsura, Shin Yamazaki, Shingo Fukuma, Kazuhide Matsushima, Toshimitsu Yamashiro and Shunichi Fukuhara
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:82
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  45. Cervical immobilisation is commonly applied following trauma, particularly blunt head injury, but current methods of immobilisation are associated with significant complications. Semi-rigid disposable cervical...

    Authors: Alison Sparke, Sarah Voss and Jonathan Benger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:81
    Content type: Review Published on:

  46. Clinical practice in trauma and critical care is predominantly derived from quantitative observational cohort studies based on data retrospectively collected from medical records. Such data create uncontrolled...

    Authors: Hans Morten Lossius, Andreas J Krüger, Kjetil Gorseth Ringdal, Stephen JM Sollid and David J Lockey
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:80
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  47. The EndoFlex is a new type of tracheal tube with an adjustable distal tip that can be bent without the use of a stylet. The aim of this study was to compare a standard endotracheal tube with the EndoFlex trach...

    Authors: Ewelina Gaszynska, Michal Stankiewicz-Rudnicki, Andrzej Wieczorek and Tomasz Gaszynski
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:79
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  48. Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) is defined as the difference between the mean arterial pressure (MAP) and the intracranial pressure (ICP). However, since patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are usuall...

    Authors: Vidar Rao, Pål Klepstad, Ole Kristian Losvik and Ole Solheim
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:78
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  49. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and hemorrhagic shock (HS) are the leading causes of death in trauma. Recent studies suggest that TBI may influence physiological responses to acute blood loss. This study was desi...

    Authors: Bo Chen, Manuel Mutschler, Yongjun Yuan, Edmund Neugebauer, Qiaobing Huang and Marc Maegele
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:77
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  50. Long waiting times for emergency care are claimed to be caused by overcrowded emergency departments and non-effective working routines. Teamwork has been suggested as a promising solution to these issues. The ...

    Authors: Åsa Muntlin Athlin, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz and Nasim Farrohknia
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:76
    Content type: Original research Published on:

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