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  1. Mass gathering (MG) events may cause delayed emergency responses via various mechanisms and strain the resources of local emergency services. Therefore, preparedness, including adequate pre-planning and suffic...

    Authors: Anssi Koski, Jukka Pappinen, Anne Kouvonen and Hilla Nordquist
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:15
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  2. Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs), particularly those associated with entrapment, are a common cause of major trauma. Current extrication methods are focused on spinal movement minimisation and mitigation, but f...

    Authors: Tim Nutbeam, Anthony Kehoe, Rob Fenwick, Jason Smith, Omar Bouamra, Lee Wallis and Willem Stassen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:14
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  3. Rapid stratification of the risk of cardiac arrest is essential in the assessment of patients with isolated accidental hypothermia. Traditional methods based on measurement of core temperature are unreliable i...

    Authors: Samuel Barrow and Galen Ives
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:13
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  4. Given that Swedish authorities have been widely viewed as having practiced an unusual approach to the COVID-19 pandemic and given that Sweden is notable for a low incidence of trauma, we wanted to learn how th...

    Authors: Denise Bäckström and Andreas Wladis
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:12
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  5. In Denmark emergency medical technicians transport patients with acute COPD exacerbations to the nearest emergency department. From a clinical and economic perspective, this transport and assessment at the hos...

    Authors: H. M. Christensen, P. I. Pietersen, C. B. Laursen, D. Wittrock, G. Nadim, G. Jørgensen, L. B. Nielsen, M. K. Sørensen, I. L. Titlestad, A. T. Lassen and S. Mikkelsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:11
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  6. Dispatching first responders (FR) to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in addition to the emergency medical service has shown to increase survival. The promising development of FR systems over the past years has ...

    Authors: Camilla Metelmann, Bibiana Metelmann, Michael P. Müller, Bernd W. Böttiger, Georg Trummer and Karl Christian Thies
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:10
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  7. COVID-19 has overwhelmed health services across the world; its global death toll has exceeded 5.3 million and continues to grow. There have been almost 15 million cases of COVID-19 in the UK. The need for rap...

    Authors: David Fitzpatrick, Edward A. S. Duncan, Matthew Moore, Catherine Best, Federico Andreis, Martin Esposito, Richard Dobbie, Alasdair R. Corfield and David J. Lowe
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:9
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  8. Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is an intervention that can be performed in the prehospital setting for relieving cardiac tamponade and/or obtaining vascular control of suspected sub-diaphragmatic haemorrhage i...

    Authors: Phillip Almond, Sarah Morton, Matthew OMeara and Neal Durge
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:8
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  9. Motor vehicle collisions are a common cause of death and serious injury. Many casualties will remain in their vehicle following a collision. Trapped patients have more injuries and are more likely to die than ...

    Authors: Tim Nutbeam, Rob Fenwick, Barbara May, Willem Stassen, Jason E. Smith, Jono Bowdler, Lee Wallis and James Shippen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:7
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  10. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed exceptional demand on Intensive Care Units, necessitating the critical care transfer of patients on a regional and national scale. Performing these transfers required specialis...

    Authors: J. Jeyanathan, D. Bootland, A. Al-Rais, J. Leung, J. Wijesuriya, L. Banks, T. Breen, R. DeCoverly, L. Curtis, A. McHenry, D. Wright, J. E. Griggs and R. M. Lyon
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:6
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  11. A favorable neurological outcome is closely related to patient characteristics and total cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) duration. The total CPR duration consists of pre-hospital and in-hospital durations....

    Authors: SungJoon Park, Sung Woo Lee, Kap Su Han, Eui Jung Lee, Dong-Hyun Jang, Si Jin Lee, Ji Sung Lee and Su Jin Kim
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:5
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  12. Motor vehicle collisions remain a common cause of spinal cord injury. Biomechanical studies of spinal movement often lack “real world” context and applicability. Additional data may enhance our understanding o...

    Authors: Tim Nutbeam, Rob Fenwick, Barbara May, Willem Stassen, Jason Smith and James Shippen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:4
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  13. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been shown to be elevated among first responders (Emergency Medical Services, fire service, police force) compared to the general population. Examining the prevalence o...

    Authors: Bjørn Ole Reid, Lars Eide Næss-Pleym, Karin Elvenes Bakkelund, Jostein Dale, Oddvar Uleberg and Andreas Espetvedt Nordstrand
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:3
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  14. The COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread use of personal protection equipment (PPE), including filtering face piece (FFP) masks, throughout the world. PPE. Previous studies indicate that PPE impairs neurocognit...

    Authors: Calvin Lukas Kienbacher, Jürgen Grafeneder, Katharina Tscherny, Mario Krammel, Verena Fuhrmann, Maximilian Niederer, Sabine Neudorfsky, Klaus Herbich, Wolfgang Schreiber, Harald Herkner and Dominik Roth
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:2
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  15. The requirement concerning formal education for emergency medical dispatcher (EMD) is debated and varies, both nationally and internationally. There are few studies on the outcomes of emergency medical dispatc...

    Authors: Klara Torlén Wennlund, Lisa Kurland, Knut Olanders, Maaret Castrén and Katarina Bohm
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:1
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  16. In severely injured patients, fibrinogen supplementation is recommended when fibrinogenemia is < 1.5 g L−1, but some teams have suggested to use higher thresholds (fibrinogenemia < 2.0 g L−1 or FIBTEM clot amplit...

    Authors: Jean-Stephane David, Aline Lambert, Xavier-Jean Taverna, Pascal Incagnoli, Marie-Odile Geay-Baillat, Olivia Vassal, Arnaud Friggeri and Kenji Inaba
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:174
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  17. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the risk of an extensive overload of the healthcare systems have elucidated the need to make decisions on the level of life-sustaining treatment for patients requiring h...

    Authors: Hanne Irene Jensen, Sevim Ozden, Gitte Schultz Kristensen, Mihnaz Azizi, Siri Aas Smedemark and Christian Backer Mogensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:173
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  18. Intraosseous cannulation can be life-saving when intravenous access cannot be readily achieved. However, it has been shown that the procedure may cause fat emboli to the lungs and brain. Fat embolization may c...

    Authors: Steinar Kristiansen, Benjamin Storm, Dalia Dahle, Terje Domaas Josefsen, Knut Dybwik, Bent Aksel Nilsen and Erik Waage-Nielsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:172
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  19. Tranexamic acid (TXA) reduce mortality in bleeding trauma patients, with greater effect if administered early. Serum concentrations above 10 µg/mL are considered sufficient to inhibit fibrinolysis. Normally ad...

    Authors: Håkon Kvåle Bakke, Ole Martin Fuskevåg, Erik Waage Nielsen and Erik Sveberg Dietrichs
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:171
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  20. Clinically meaningful pain reduction with respect to severity and the adverse events of drugs used in prehospital pain management for children are areas that have not received sufficient attention. The present...

    Authors: Yonas Abebe, Fredrik Hetmann, Kacper Sumera, Matt Holland and Trine Staff
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:170
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Selection of incidents and accurate identification of patients that require assistance from physician-staffed emergency medical services (P-EMS) remain essential. We aimed to evaluate P-EMS availability, the u...

    Authors: Martin Samdal, Kjetil Thorsen, Ola Græsli, Mårten Sandberg and Marius Rehn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:169
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  22. The goal of improving quality through centralisation of specialised medical services must be balanced against potential harm caused by delayed access to emergency treatments in rural areas. This study aims to ...

    Authors: Lorenz Meuli, Alexander Zimmermann, Anna-Leonie Menges, Mario Tissi, Stefan Becker, Roland Albrecht and Urs Pietsch
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:168
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  23. Non-technical skills (NTS) concepts from high-risk industries such as aviation have been enthusiastically applied to medical teams for decades. Yet it remains unclear whether—and how—these concepts impact resu...

    Authors: J. Colin Evans, M. Blair Evans, Meagan Slack, Michael Peddle and Lorelei Lingard
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:167
    Content type: Review Published on:

  24. Open thoracostomies have become the standard of care in pre-hospital critical care in patients with chest injuries receiving positive pressure ventilation. The procedure has embedded itself as a rapid method t...

    Authors: Stian Mohrsen, Niall McMahon, Alasdair Corfield and Sinéad McKee
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:166
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  26. Rapid response systems (RRSs) are essential components of patient safety systems; however, limited evidence exists regarding their effectiveness and optimal structures. We aimed to assess the activation patter...

    Authors: Seung-Hun You, Sun-Young Jung, Hyun Joo Lee, Sulhee Kim and Eunjin Yang
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:164
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  27. Auscultating for breath sounds to assess for pneumothorax in the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) settings can be extremely challenging. Thoracic point of care ultrasound (POCUS) offers a seemingly...

    Authors: Edward Griffiths
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:163
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  28. In 2015, a national research agenda was established for Dutch prehospital EMS to underpin the evidence base of care delivery and inform policymakers and funders. The continuously increasing demand for ambulanc...

    Authors: Lilian C. M. Vloet, Gijs Hesselink, Sivera A. A. Berben, Margreet Hoogeveen, Paul J. T. Rood and Remco H. A. Ebben
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:162
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  29. As pediatric patients are typically rare among helicopter emergency medical systems (HEMS), children might be at risk for oligo-analgesia due to the rescuer’s lack of experience and the fear of side effects.

    Authors: Christopher Rugg, Simon Woyke, Julia Ausserer, Wolfgang Voelckel, Peter Paal and Mathias Ströhle
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:161
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  30. While there are clear national resuscitation room admission guidelines for major trauma patients, there are no comparable alarm criteria for critically ill nontrauma (CINT) patients in the emergency department...

    Authors: Alexandros Rovas, Efe Paracikoglu, Mark Michael, André Gries, Janina Dziegielewski, Hermann Pavenstädt, Michael Bernhard and Philipp Kümpers
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:160
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  32. We leveraged the data of the international CREACTIVE consortium to investigate whether the outcome of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) in hospitals without on-site n...

    Authors: Aimone Giugni, Lorenzo Gamberini, Greta Carrara, Luca Antiga, Obou Brissy, Virginia Buldini, Italo Calamai, Akos Csomos, Alessandra De Luca, Enrico Ferri, Joanne M. Fleming, Primoz Gradisek, Rafael Kaps, Theodoros Kyprianou, Silvia Lagomarsino, Isaac Lazar…
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:158
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  33. The emergency medical services (EMS) use guidelines to describe optimal patient care for a wide range of clinical conditions and symptoms. The intent is to guide personnel to provide patient care in line with ...

    Authors: Kristoffer Wibring, Markus Lingman, Johan Herlitz, Lina Blom, Otto Serholt Gripestam and Angela Bång
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:157
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  34. In a terror attack mass casualty incident (TerrorMASCAL), compared to a “normal” MASCAL, there is a dynamic course that can extend over several hours. The injury patterns are penetrating and perforating injuri...

    Authors: Nina Thies, Alexandra Zech, Thorsten Kohlmann, Peter Biberthaler, Michael Bayeff-Filloff, Karl-Georg Kanz and Stephan Prückner
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:156
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  35. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly contagious airborne virus inducing pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This is most relevant for medical staff working under h...

    Authors: Martin Lier, Stefan Nessler, Christine Stadelmann, Meike Pressler, Leif Saager, Onnen Moerer, Markus Roessler, Konrad Meissner and Martin S. Winkler
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:155
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  36. Authors: Delphine Douillet, Stéphanie Kalwant, Yara Amro, Benjamin Gicquel, Idriss Arnaudet, Dominique Savary, Quentin Le Bastard and François Javaudin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:154
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:141

  37. Healthcare workers have reported increased anxiety while working in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of healthcare students in a health crisis has been discussed among clinicians and resear...

    Authors: Kristin Häikiö, Jeanette V. Andersen, Morten Bakkerud, Carl R. Christiansen, Kim Rand and Trine Staff
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:153
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  38. The Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) is part of the Danish Emergency Medical Services System serving 5.7 million citizens with 1% living on islands not connected to the mainland by road. HEM...

    Authors: Thea Palsgaard Møller, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Thora Majlund Kjærulff, Kristine Bihrmann, Karen Alstrup, Lars Knudsen, Troels Martin Hansen, Peter Anthony Berlac, Freddy Lippert and Charlotte Barfod
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:152
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  39. The helicopter emergency services (HEMS) Benefit Score (HBS) is a nine-level scoring system developed to evaluate the benefits of HEMS missions. The HBS has been in clinical use for two decades in its original...

    Authors: Anssi Heino, Lasse Raatiniemi, Timo Iirola, Merja Meriläinen, Janne Liisanantti and Miretta Tommila
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:151
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  40. In the pre-hospital setting, non-urgent patients with non-specific chief complaints pose assessment challenges for the emergency medical systems (EMS). Severely ill patients should be identified among these pa...

    Authors: Milla Jousi, Marja Mäkinen, Johanna Kaartinen, Leena Meriläinen and Maaret Castrén
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:150
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  41. Authors: Asger Sonne, Sarita Egholm, Laurits Elgaard, Niklas Breindahl, Alice Herrlin Jensen, Vagn Eskesen, Freddy Lippert, Frans Boch Waldorf, Nicolai Lohse and Lars Simon Rasmussen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:149
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:118

  42. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is, by its nature, a challenging context that may create risks for both patients and employees. It is also known that an organisation’s safety culture has an influence on both ...

    Authors: Anu Venesoja, Veronica Lindström, Pasi Aronen, Maaret Castrén and Susanna Tella
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:148
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  43. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) performed at the emergency scene in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) can minimize low-flow time. Target temperature management (TTM) after cardiac arres...

    Authors: Walter Petermichl, Alois Philipp, Karl-Anton Hiller, Maik Foltan, Bernhard Floerchinger, Bernhard Graf and Dirk Lunz
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:147
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  45. Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction and a major healthcare burden worldwide. Although sepsis is a medical emergency that requires immediate management, screening for the occurrence of sepsis is diff...

    Authors: Joon-myoung Kwon, Ye Rang Lee, Min-Seung Jung, Yoon-Ji Lee, Yong-Yeon Jo, Da-Young Kang, Soo Youn Lee, Yong-Hyeon Cho, Jae-Hyun Shin, Jang-Hyeon Ban and Kyung-Hee Kim
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:145
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  46. There is little evidence of which sepsis screening tool to use in the ambulance setting. The primary aim of the current study was to compare the performance of NEWS2 (National Early Warning score 2) and RETTS ...

    Authors: Ulrika M. Wallgren, Jan Sjölin, Hans Järnbert-Pettersson and Lisa Kurland
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:144
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  47. Authors: Bernd Wallner, Luca Moroder, Hannah Salchner, Peter Mair, Stefanie Wallner, Gabriel Putzer, Giacomo Strapazzon, Markus Falk and Hermann Brugger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:143
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:129

  48. The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) during cardiac arrest (ECPR) has increased exponentially. However, reported outcomes vary considerably due to differing study designs and selection criteri...

    Authors: Sameer Karve, Dominique Lahood, Arne Diehl, Aidan Burrell, David H. Tian, Tim Southwood, Paul Forrest and Mark Dennis
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:142
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  49. Patients with electrical injury are considered to be at risk of cardiac arrhythmia. Assessing the risk of developing a major adverse cardiac event (MACE) is the cornerstone of patient management. The aim of th...

    Authors: Delphine Douillet, Stéphanie Kalwant, Yara Amro, Benjamin Gicquel, Idriss Arnaudet, Dominique Savary, Quentin Le Bastard and François Javaudin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:141
    Content type: Original research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:154

  50. Major incidents (MI) are rare occurrences in Scandinavia. Literature depicting Scandinavian MI management is scarce and case reports and research is called for. In 2019, a trailer falling off a freight train s...

    Authors: Peter Martin Hansen, Søren Bruun Jepsen, Søren Mikkelsen and Marius Rehn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2021 29:140
    Content type: Case report Published on:

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