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  1. Although nurses must be able to respond quickly and effectively to cardiac arrest, numerous studies have demonstrated poor performance. Simulation is a promising learning tool for resuscitation team training b...

    Authors: Sissel I Eikeland Husebø, Conrad A Bjørshol, Hans Rystedt, Febe Friberg and Eldar Søreide
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:23
  2. This case series investigates whether painful electrical stimulation increases the early prognostic value of both somatosensory-evoked potentials and functional magnetic resonance imaging in comatose patients ...

    Authors: Paolo Zanatta, Simone Messerotti Benvenuti, Fabrizio Baldanzi, Matteo Bendini, Marsilio Saccavini, Wadih Tamari, Daniela Palomba and Enrico Bosco
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:22
  3. Bystander resuscitation plays an important role in lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A significant reduction in the "no-flow-time", quantitatively better chest compressions and an improved qualit...

    Authors: Gereon Schälte, Christian Stoppe, Rolf Rossaint, Laura Gilles, Maike Heuser, Steffen Rex, Mark Coburn, Norbert Zoremba and Annette Rieg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:21
  4. Although liver injury scale does not predict need for surgical intervention, a high-grade complex liver injury should alert the physician to expect an increased risk of hepatic complications following trauma. ...

    Authors: Miklosh Bala, Samir Abu Gazalla, Mohammad Faroja, Allan I Bloom, Gideon Zamir, Avraham I Rivkind and Gidon Almogy
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:20
  5. Critical hospital resources, especially the demand for ICU beds, are usually limited following mass casualty incidents such as suicide bombing attacks (SBA). Our primary objective was to identify easily diagno...

    Authors: Miklosh Bala, Dafna Willner, Asaf Keidar, Avraham I Rivkind, Tali Bdolah-Abram and Gidon Almogy
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:19
  6. Over the past decade technological advances in the realm of ultrasound have allowed what was once a cumbersome and large machine to become essentially hand-held. This coupled with a greater understanding of lu...

    Authors: Lawrence M Gillman and Andrew W Kirkpatrick
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:18
  7. The rewarming benefit of anterior torso heat pad application in mildly hypothermic conscious adult trauma patients remains inconclusive in this randomized comparative clinical trial. There was no between-group...

    Authors: Joseph Yuk Sang Ting
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:17
  8. Good quality basic life support (BLS) improves outcome following cardiac arrest. As BLS performance deteriorates over time we performed a parallel group, superiority study to investigate the effect of feedback...

    Authors: Tobias Stenbjerg Lyngeraa, Peter Buhl Hjortrup, Nille Birk Wulff, Theis Aagaard and Anne Lippert
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:16
  9. Severe trauma-related bleeding is associated with high mortality. Standard coagulation tests provide limited information on the underlying coagulation disorder. Whole-blood viscoelastic tests such as rotationa...

    Authors: Herbert Schöchl, Marc Maegele, Cristina Solomon, Klaus Görlinger and Wolfgang Voelckel
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:15
  10. Hospitals are cornerstones for health care in a community and must continue to function in the face of a disaster. The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is a method by which the hospital operates when an...

    Authors: Ahmadreza Djalali, Maaret Castren, Vahid Hosseinijenab, Mahmoud Khatib, Gunnar Ohlen and Lisa Kurland
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:14
  11. Blunt implementation of Western trauma system models is not feasible in low-resource communities with long prehospital transit times. The aims of the study were to evaluate to which extent a low-cost prehospit...

    Authors: Mudhafar K Murad, Stig Larsen and Hans Husum
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:13
  12. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major medical and socio-economic problem, and is the leading cause of death in children and young adults. The critical care management of severe TBI is largely derived from th...

    Authors: Samir H Haddad and Yaseen M Arabi
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:12
  13. The aim of this letter is to facilitate the standardisation of Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) codesets used to code injuries in trauma registries. We have compiled a definitive list of the changes which have b...

    Authors: Kjetil G Ringdal, Morten Hestnes and Cameron S Palmer
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:11
  14. Emergent placement of a chest tube is a potentially life-saving procedure, but rate of misplacement and organ injury is up to 30%. In principle, chest tube insertion can be performed by using Trocar or Non-tro...

    Authors: Clemens M Ortner, Kurt Ruetzler, Nikolaus Schaumann, Veit Lorenz, Peter Schellongowski, Ernst Schuster, Ramez M Salem and Michael Frass
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:10
  15. For real-time assessment of the probability of survival (Ps) of blunt trauma victims at emergency centers, this study aimed to establish regression models for estimating Ps using simplified coefficients.

    Authors: Akio Kimura, Shinji Nakahara and Witaya Chadbunchachai
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:9
  16. Pre-hospital electrocardiogram (ECG) transmission to an expert for interpretation and triage reduces time to acute percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with ST elevation Myocardial Infarction (...

    Authors: Jakob L Forberg, Ardavan Khoshnood, Michael Green, Mattias Ohlsson, Jonas Björk, Stefan Jovinge, Lars Edenbrandt and Ulf Ekelund
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:8
  17. Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) have been profiled as 'party drugs' used mainly at dance parties and in nightclubs on weekend nights. The purpose of this study was to examine the freq...

    Authors: James J Boyd, Markku J Kuisma and Tarja T Randell
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:7
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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 MÃ¥rten Sandberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:3
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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

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