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Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18(Suppl 1):P23
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End-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring during bag valve ventilation: the use of a new portable device
For healthcare providers in the prehospital setting, bag-valve mask (BVM) ventilation could be as efficacious and safe as endotracheal intubation. To facilitate the evaluation of efficacious ventilation, capno...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:49 -
Early identification and delay to treatment in myocardial infarction and stroke: differences and similarities
The two major complications of atherosclerosis are acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and acute ischemic stroke. Both are life-threatening conditions characterised by the abrupt cessation of blood flow to respe...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:48 -
Teamwork skills, shared mental models, and performance in simulated trauma teams: an independent group design
Non-technical skills are seen as an important contributor to reducing adverse events and improving medical management in healthcare teams. Previous research on the effectiveness of teams has suggested that sha...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:47 -
Patterns in deer-related traffic injuries over a decade: the Mayo clinic experience
Our American College of Surgeons Level 1 Trauma Center serves a rural population. As a result, there is a unique set of accidents that are not present in an urban environment such as deer related motor vehicle...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:46 -
Pitfalls with the "chest compression-only" approach: the challenge of an unusual cause
Chest compression-only (CC-only) is now incorporated in the Norwegian protocol for dispatch guided CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac aetiology.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:45 -
Time needed to achieve completeness and accuracy in bedside lung ultrasound reporting in Intensive Care Unit
The use of lung ultrasound (LUS) in ICU is increasing but ultrasonographic patterns of lung are often difficult to quantify by different operators. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and qualit...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:44 -
Hospital employees' theoretical knowledge on what to do in an in-hospital cardiac arrest
Guidelines recommend that all health care professionals should be able to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), including the use of an automated external defibrillator. Theoretical knowledge of CPR is ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:43 -
Focused nurse-defibrillation training: a simple and cost-effective strategy to improve survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest
Time to first defibrillation is widely accepted to correlate closely with survival and recovery of neurological function after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia. Focused...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:42 -
Vascular relaxation of canine visceral arteries after ischemia by means of supraceliac aortic cross-clamping followed by reperfusion
The supraceliac aortic cross-clamping can be an option to save patients with hipovolemic shock due to abdominal trauma. However, this maneuver is associated with ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury strongly rela...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:41 -
A heuristic approach and heretic view on the technical issues and pitfalls in the management of penetrating abdominal injuries
There is a general decline in penetrating abdominal trauma throughout the western world. As a result of that, there is a significant loss of expertise in dealing with this type of injury particularly when the ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:40 -
Ultrasound confirmation of guidewire position may eliminate accidental arterial dilatation during central venous cannulation
Ultrasound guidance during central line insertion has significantly reduced complications associated with this procedure and has led to it being incorporated as standard of care in many institutions. However, ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:39 -
Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome associated with hypovolemic shock and compartment syndrome. Use of transpulmonary thermodilution technique for volume management
Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome (SCLS) is a rare disorder characterized by increased capillary hyperpermeability leading to hypovolemic shock due to a markedly increased shift of fluid and protein from the in...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:38 -
Current use of intraosseous infusion in Danish emergency departments: a cross-sectional study
Intraosseous infusion (IOI) is recommended when intravenous access cannot be readily established in both pediatric and adult resuscitation. We evaluated the current use of IOI in Danish emergency departments (...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:37 -
Gunshot bullet embolus with pellet migration from the left brachiocephalic vein to the right ventricle: a case report
We report the case of a 16 year old male who was the victim of a drive by shooting sustaining the rare but recognised complication of cardiovascular bullet embolism. He was seen as a trauma call in the emergen...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:36 -
A civilian perspective on ballistic trauma and gunshot injuries
Gun violence is on the rise in some European countries, however most of the literature on gunshot injuries pertains to military weaponry and is difficult to apply to civilians, due to dissimilarities in wound ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:35 -
"Metabolic staging" after major trauma - a guide for clinical decision making?
Metabolic changes after major trauma have a complex underlying pathophysiology. The early posttraumatic stress response is associated with a state of hyperinflammation, with increased oxygen consumption and en...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:34 -
Repair of damaged supraglottic airway devices: A novel method
Damage of laryngeal mask airway and other supraglottic airway devices has always been a matter of concern. Although manufacturer recommends maximum 40 uses of LMA (and its congeners) but damage before 40 uses ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:33 -
Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on whole blood cyanide concentrations in carbon monoxide intoxicated patients from fire accidents
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and carbon monoxide (CO) may be important components of smoke from fire accidents. Accordingly, patients admitted to hospital from fire accidents may have been exposed to both HCN and CO...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:32 -
A first city-wide early defibrillation project in a German city: 5-year results of the Bochum against sudden cardiac arrest study
Immediate defibrillation is the decisive determinant of prognosis in patients suffering from cardiac/circulatory arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation (VF). Therefore, various national and international as...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:31 -
Pre-hospital intubation by anaesthesiologists in patients with severe trauma: an audit of a Norwegian helicopter emergency medical service
Anaesthesiologists are airway management experts, which is one of the reasons why they serve as pre-hospital emergency physicians in many countries. However, limited data are available on the actual quality an...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:30 -
Capillary leakage in post-cardiac arrest survivors during therapeutic hypothermia - a prospective, randomised study
Fluids are often given liberally after the return of spontaneous circulation. However, the optimal fluid regimen in survivors of cardiac arrest is unknown. Recent studies indicate an increased fluid requiremen...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:29 -
Extracorporeal life support for management of refractory cardiac or respiratory failure: initial experience in a tertiary centre
Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) have been indicated as treatment for acute respiratory and/or cardiac failure. Here we describe our first year experience of in...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:28 -
A Review of metabolic staging in severely injured patients
An interpretation of the metabolic response to injury in patients with severe accidental or surgical trauma is made. In the last century, various authors attributed a meaning to the post-traumatic inflammatory...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:27 -
Polytrauma in the elderly: predictors of the cause and time of death
Increasing age and significant pre-existing medical conditions (PMCs) are independent risk factors associated with increased mortality after trauma. Our aim was to review all trauma deaths, identifying the cau...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:26 -
First responder resuscitation teams in a rural Norwegian community: sustainability and self-reports of meaningfulness, stress and mastering
Training of lay first responder personnel situated closer to the potential victims than medical professionals is a strategy potentially capable of shortening the interval between collapse and start of cardiopu...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:25 -
Outcome predictors and quality of life of severe burn patients admitted to intensive care unit
Despite significant medical advances and improvement in overall mortality rate following burn injury, the treatment of patients with extensive burns remains a major challenge for intensivists. We present a stu...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:24 -
Microfinance as a method of facilitating research in emergency medicine
Microgrants are a novel concept where small grants are used to facilitate research. The concept might have a place in developing emergency medicine research, especially in countries where emergency medicine is...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:23 -
Risk assessment of pre-hospital trauma airway management by anaesthesiologists using the predictive Bayesian approach
Endotracheal intubation (ETI) has been considered an essential part of pre-hospital advanced life support. Pre-hospital ETI, however, is a complex intervention also for airway specialist like anaesthesiologist...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:22 -
Differences in trauma team activation criteria among Norwegian hospitals
To ensure the rapid and correct triage of patients in potential need of specialized treatment, Norwegian hospitals are expected to establish trauma teams with predefined criteria for their activation. The obje...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:21 -
Continuous chest compressions: encouraging but unusual
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:20 -
Favourable outcome after 26 minutes of "Compression only" resuscitation: a case report
A 49 year old man had ventricular fibrillation in his home, at room temperature, due to an ST-elevation myocardial infarction. He received Cardiac compression only resuscitation (CC-only) for 26 minutes by his...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:19 -
Cuff overinflation and endotracheal tube obstruction: case report and experimental study
Initiated by a clinical case of critical endotracheal tube (ETT) obstruction, we aimed to determine factors that potentially contribute to the development of endotracheal tube obstruction by its inflated cuff....
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:18 -
ISS mapped from ICD-9-CM by a novel freeware versus traditional coding: a comparative study
Injury severity measures are based either on the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) or the International Classification of diseases (ICD). The latter is more convenient because routinely collected by clinicians fo...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:17 -
Comparison of the quality of chest compressions on a dressed versus an undressed manikin: A controlled, randomised, cross-over simulation study
Undressing the chest of a cardiac arrest victim may delay the initiation of chest compressions. Furthermore, expecting laypeople to undress the chest may increase bystander reluctance to perform cardiopulmonar...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:16 -
Inter-hospital transfer: the crux of the trauma system, a curse for trauma registries
The inter-hospital transfer of patients is crucial to a well functioning trauma system, and the transfer process may serve as a quality indicator for regional trauma care. However, the assessment of the transf...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:15 -
Interfacility transfers in a non-trauma system setting: an assessment of the Greek reality
Quality assessment of any trauma system involves the evaluation of the transferring patterns. This study aims to assess interfacility transfers in the absence of a formal trauma system setting and to estimate ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:14 -
Scenario based outdoor simulation in pre-hospital trauma care using a simple mannequin model
We describe a system of scenario-based training using simple mannequins under realistic circumstances for the training of pre-hospital care providers.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:13 -
Effect of levosimendan in experimental verapamil- induced myocardial depression
Calcium antagonist overdose can cause severe deterioration of hemodynamics unresponsible to treatment with beta adrenergic inotropes. The aim of the study was to evaluate in an experimental model the effects o...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:12 -
Arterial embolization in patients with grade-4 blunt renal trauma: evaluation of the glomerular filtration rates by dynamic scintigraphy with 99mTechnetium-diethylene triamine pentacetic acid
High-grade blunt renal trauma has been treated by arterial embolization (AE). However, it is unknown whether AE preserves renal function, because conventional renal function tests reflect total renal function ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:11 -
No impact of early intervention on late outcome after minimal, mild and moderate head injury
To evaluate the effect of an educational intervention on outcome after minimal, mild and moderate head injury.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:10 -
The epidemiology of medical emergency contacts outside hospitals in Norway - a prospective population based study
There is a lack of epidemiological knowledge on medical emergencies outside hospitals in Norway. The aim of the present study was to obtain representative data on the epidemiology of medical emergencies classi...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:9 -
Risk scoring systems for adults admitted to the emergency department: a systematic review
Patients referred to a medical admission unit (MAU) represent a broad spectrum of disease severity. In the interest of allocating resources to those who might potentially benefit most from clinical interventio...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:8 -
Survival after prolonged resuscitation with 99 defibrillations due to Torsade De Pointes cardiac electrical storm: a case report
A 48-year-old previously healthy woman suffered witnessed cardiac arrest in hospital. She achieved return of spontaneous circulation and was transferred to the intensive care unit. During the following 3 hours...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:7 -
A review of ureteral injuries after external trauma
Ureteral trauma is rare, accounting for less than 1% of all urologic traumas. However, a missed ureteral injury can result in significant morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this article is to review the l...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:6 -
Emergency medicine in Scandinavia - an outstanding opportunity for research
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:5 -
Successful use of therapeutic hypothermia in an opiate induced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest complicated by severe hypoglycaemia and amphetamine intoxication: a case report
The survival to discharge rate after unwitnessed, non-cardiac out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is dismal. We report the successful use of therapeutic hypothermia in a 26-year old woman with OHCA due to in...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:4 -
Advanced Cardiac Resuscitation Evaluation (ACRE): A randomised single-blind controlled trial of peer-led vs. expert-led advanced resuscitation training
Advanced resuscitation skills training is an important and enjoyable part of medical training, but requires small group instruction to ensure active participation of all students. Increases in student numbers ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:3 -
2-year survival of patients undergoing mild hypothermia treatment after ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest is significantly improved compared to historical controls
Therapeutic hypothermia has been proven to be effective in improving neurological outcome in patients after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation (VF). Data concerning the effect of hypothermia treatm...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:2 -
Acute kidney injury in severe trauma assessed by RIFLE criteria: a common feature without implications on mortality?
Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been hard to assess due to the lack of standard definitions. Recently, the Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss and End-Stage Kidney (RIFLE) classification has been proposed to classify AK...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:1
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