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  1. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), i.e. a TBI with an admission Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 13–15, is a common cause of emergency department visits. Only a small fraction of these patients will develop a trau...

    Authors: Li Jin Yang, Philipp Lassarén, Filippo Londi, Leonardo Palazzo, Alexander Fletcher-Sandersjöö, Kristian Ängeby, Eric Peter Thelin and Rebecka Rubenson Wahlin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:91
  2. How ambulance clinicians (ACs) handle a mass casualty incident (MCI) is essential for the suffered, but the training and learning for the ACs are sparse and they don’t have the possibility to learn without rea...

    Authors: S. Heldring, V. Lindström, M. Jirwe and J. Wihlborg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:90
  3. This study assessed the global trends and burden of severe chest injury, including rib fractures, lung contusions, and heart injuries from 1990 to 2019. Herein, we predicted the burden patterns and temporal tr...

    Authors: Qingsong Chen, Guangbin Huang, Tao Li, Qi Zhang, Ping He, Jun Yang, Yongming Li and Dingyuan Du
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:89
  4. Medical staff are regularly confronted with workplace violence (WPV), which poses a threat to the safety of both staff and patients. Structured de-escalation training (DET) for Emergency Department (ED) staff ...

    Authors: Leo Benning, Gisbert W. Teepe, Jan Kleinekort, Jorun Thoma, Michael Clemens Röttger, Andrea Prunotto, Dominik Gottlieb, Stefan Klöppel, Hans-Jörg Busch and Felix P. Hans
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:88
  5. Trauma systems are crucial for enhancing survival and quality of life for trauma patients. Understanding trauma triage and patient outcomes is essential for optimizing resource allocation and trauma care.

    Authors: Thea Palsgaard Møller, Josefine Tangen Jensen, Roar Borregaard Medici, Søren Steemann Rudolph, Lars Bredevang Andersen, Jakob Roed, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Helle Collatz Christensen and Mark Edwards
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:87
  6. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival in the UK remains overall poor with fewer than 10% of patients surviving to hospital discharge. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is a developin...

    Authors: Jasper Eddison, Oscar Millerchip, Alex Rosenberg, Asher Lewinsohn and James Raitt
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:86
  7. Timely and accurate assessment of coagulopathy is crucial for the management of primary postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Thromboelastography (TEG) provides a comprehensive assessment of coagulation status and is u...

    Authors: Sang-Min Kim, Chang Hwan Sohn, Hyojeong Kwon, Seung Mok Ryoo, Shin Ahn, Dong Woo Seo and Won Young Kim
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:85
  8. The proportion of very elderly patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) is expected to rise. Furthermore, patients are likely more prone to suffer a cardiac arrest (CA) event within the ICU. The occurrence of...

    Authors: Markus Haar, Jakob Müller, Daniela Hartwig, Julia von Bargen, Rikus Daniels, Pauline Theile, Stefan Kluge and Kevin Roedl
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:84
  9. Pneumothorax may occur as a complication of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and could pose a potentially life-threatening condition. In this study we sought to investigate the incidence of pneumothorax fol...

    Authors: Daniel Auinger, David Hötzer, Paul Zajic, Simon Orlob, Stefan Heschl, Stephanie Fida, Philipp Zoidl, Gabriel Honnef, Herwig Friedl, Freyja-Maria Smolle-Jüttner and Gerhard Prause
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:82
  10. Invasive blood pressure measurement is the in-hospital gold standard to guide hemodynamic management and consecutively cerebral perfusion pressure in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Its prehospital...

    Authors: Michael Eichlseder, Sebastian Labenbacher, Alexander Pichler, Michael Eichinger, Thomas Kuenzer, Philipp Zoidl, Barbara Hallmann, Felix Stelzl, Nikolaus Schreiber and Paul Zajic
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:81
  11. Authors: Anders Lund Selli, Adrina Kalasho Kuzmiszyn, Natalia Smaglyukova, Timofey Kondratiev, Ole-Martin Fuskevåg, Georg Sager and Erik Sveberg Dietrichs
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:80

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:73

  12. Healthcare is awash with numbers, and figuring out what knowledge these numbers might hold is worthwhile in order to improve patient care. Numbers allow for objective mathematical analysis of the information a...

    Authors: Jo Røislien
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:79
  13. The dynamic and challenging work environment of the prehospital emergency care settings creates many challenges for paramedics. Previous studies have examined adverse events and patient safety activities, but ...

    Authors: Anna Poranen, Anne Kouvonen and Hilla Nordquist
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:78
  14. Blood pressure monitoring is important in the pre-hospital management of critically ill patients. Non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) measurements are commonly used but the accuracy of standard oscillometric cu...

    Authors: Yani Perera, James Raitt, Kurtis Poole, David Metcalfe and Asher Lewinsohn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:77
  15. Trauma guidelines on spinal motion restriction (SMR) have changed drastically in recent years. An international group of experts explored whether consensus could be reached and if guidelines on SMR performed b...

    Authors: Niklas Breindahl, Joost L. M. Bierens, Sebastian Wiberg, Roberto Barcala-Furelos and Christian Maschmann
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:76
  16. Trauma poses a significant global health challenge. Despite advancements in the management of severely injured patients, (poly)trauma continues to be a primary contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide....

    Authors: Manuela Iten, Urs Pietsch, Juergen Knapp, Dominik Andreas Jakob, Gert Krummrey, Christian Maschmann, Jacob Steinmetz, Tobias Arleth, Martin Mueller and Wolf Hautz
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:75
  17. Reducing the time to treatment by means of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation is essential to increasing survival after cardiac arrest. A novel method of dispatching drones for delivery of ...

    Authors: Dalby-Pedersen Hanna, Bergström Erika, Berglund Ellinor, Schierbeck Sofia, Svensson Leif, Nord Anette, Hollenberg Jacob and Claesson Andreas
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:74
  18. Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in the United Kingdom (UK) are provided in a mixed funding model, with the majority of services funded by charities alongside a small number of government-funded op...

    Authors: Ryan D. McHenry, Caroline Leech, Ed B. G. Barnard and Alasdair R. Corfield
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:73
  19. Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel must rapidly assess and transport patients with time-sensitive conditions to optimise patient outcomes. Serum lactate, a valuable in-hospital biomarker, has become mo...

    Authors: Carl Magnusson, Johan Herlitz, Christer Axelsson, Robert Höglind, Elin Lökholm, Thea Hillberg Hörnfeldt, Agnes Olander, Joakim Björås, Magnus Andersson Hagiwara and Pär Wennberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:72
  20. Trauma induced coagulopathy remains to be an important cause of high transfusion requirements and mortality and shock induced endotheliopathy (SHINE) has been implicated.

    Authors: Pär I. Johansson, Martin Vigstedt, Nicola S. Curry, Ross Davenport, Nicole P. Juffermans, Simon J. Stanworth, Marc Maegele, Christine Gaarder, Karim Brohi, Jakob Stensballe and Hanne H. Henriksen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:71
  21. Prehospital management of severely burned patients is extremely challenging. It should include adequate analgesia, decision-making on the necessity of prehospital endotracheal intubation and the administration...

    Authors: David Josuttis, Marianne Kruse, Philip Plettig, Ida Katinka Lenz, Denis Gümbel, Bernd Hartmann, Simon Steffan Kuepper, Volker Gebhardt and Marc Dominik Schmittner
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:70
  22. There has been a significant expansion in the measurement of healthcare system performance. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive performance measurement framework to assess the effects of telephone tria...

    Authors: Hanna Vainio, Leena Soininen and Paulus Torkki
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:69
  23. Acute abdominal pain (AAP) is a major driver for capacity-use in emergency departments (EDs) worldwide. Yet, the health care utilization of patients with AAP before and after the ED remains unclear. The primar...

    Authors: Katharina Verleger, Antje Fischer-Rosinsky, Martin Möckel, Anna Schneider, Anna Slagman, Thomas Keil and Liane Schenk
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:68
  24. Without increasing radiation exposure, ultralow-dose computed tomography (CT) of the chest provides improved diagnostic accuracy of radiological pneumonia diagnosis compared to a chest radiograph. Yet, radiolo...

    Authors: Anne Heltborg, Christian Backer Mogensen, Helene Skjøt-Arkil, Matthias Giebner, Ayham Al-Masri, Usha Bc Khatry, Sangam Khatry, Ina Isabell Kathleen Heinemeier, Jonas Jannick Andreasen, Sanne Sarmila Sivalingam Hariesh, Tenna Termansen, Anna Natalie Kolnes, Morten Hjarnø Lorentzen, Christian Borbjerg Laursen, Stefan Posth, Michael Brun Andersen…
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:67
  25. The purpose of this study was to investigate the creation, implementation, and harmonisation of medical Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in Finnish Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS). The research...

    Authors: Simo Tukia, Jari Pirnes, Jouni Nurmi and Hilla Nordquist
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:66
  26. Emergency medical services (EMS) providers transiently ascend to high altitude for primary missions and secondary transports in mountainous areas in helicopters that are unpressurised and do not have facilitie...

    Authors: Marika Falla, Michiel J. van Veelen, Markus Falk, Elisabeth M. Weiss, Giulia Roveri, Michela Masè, Bernhard Weber, Anna Randi, Hermann Brugger, Katharina Hüfner and Giacomo Strapazzon
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:65
  27. The observational Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED) study found 40% of older people attending for care to be living with frailty. Older people with frailty have poorer outcomes from emergency ca...

    Authors: Christophe A. Fehlmann, Kara Mc Loughlin, Emma Jane Cosgriff, John Francis Ferrick and James David van Oppen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:64
  28. Computed Tomography (CT) is the gold standard for cervical spine (c-spine) evaluation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) emerges due to its increasing availability and the lack of radiation exposure. However, M...

    Authors: Niklas Rutsch, Florian Schmaranzer, Pascale Amrein, Martin Müller, Christoph E. Albers and Sebastian F. Bigdon
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:63
  29. When stroke patients with suspected anterior large vessel occlusion (aLVO) happen to live in rural areas, two main options exist for prehospital transport: (i) the drip-and-ship (DnS) strategy, which ensures r...

    Authors: Max Henningsen, Matthias L. Herrmann, Simone Meier, Ulrike Bergmann, Hans-Jörg Busch, Christian A. Taschner and Jochen Brich
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:62
  30. The probability of survival in avalanche accidents is time-dependent. Critically buried victims who undergo a long burial duration (over 60 min) face a possible mortality rate of over 80%. Understanding the ph...

    Authors: C. Bracco, G. Strapazzon, A. Sciolla, A. Dupuis, G. Lauria and L. Fenoglio
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:61
  31. Since Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) is an expensive resource in terms of unit price compared to ground-based Emergency Medical Service (EMS), it is important to further investigate which methods...

    Authors: Axel Ackermann, Jukka Pappinen, Jouni Nurmi, Hilla Nordquist, Anssi Saviluoto, Santtu Mannila, Simo Mäkelä and Paulus Torkki
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:60
  32. Authors: Thomas Schmutz, Christophe Le Terrier and Vincent Ribordy
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:59
  33. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a potential high-risk condition, but appropriate care pathways, including prehospital triage and primary referral to a specialised neurosurgical centre, can improve neurological...

    Authors: Sophie-Charlott Seidenfaden, Claus Kjaer Pedersen, Niels Juul, Hans Kirkegaard and Morten Thingemann Bøtker
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:58

    The Matters Arising to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:83

  34. Limited research has explored the effect of Circle of Willis (CoW) anatomy among blunt cerebrovascular injuries (BCVI) on outcomes. It remains unclear if current BCVI screening and scanning practices are suffi...

    Authors: David Bar-Or, Stephanie Jarvis, Forrester Lensing, David Bassa, Matthew Carrick, Carlos Palacio Lascano, Maxwell Busch, David Hamilton, David Acuna, Samantha Greenseid and Daniel Ojala
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:57
  35. Authors: Gerrit Jansen, Marvin Deslandes, Martin Deicke, Julia Johanna Grannemann, Annika Hoyer, Matthias Kalmbach, André Kobiella, Thomas Plappert, Bernd Strickmann and Jochen Hinkelbein
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:56

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:52

  36. Emergency medical dispatchers (EMD) experience significant occupational stress. Medical dispatching includes call-taking, triage, dispatch, and providing callers gesture guidance to the victims. Every decision...

    Authors: Louise Giaume, Y. Daniel, A. Jimenez, G. Burlaton, D. Jost, M. Petitclerc, F. Briche, P. Hertgen, P. Amzstut, P. Mercier, C. Louyot, M. Trousselard and S. Travers
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:55
  37. Authors: Risco van Vliet, Lennert Breedveld, Annemieke A. J. Heutinck, Bram H. A. Ockeloen, Arnoud W. J. van ’t Hof and Xavier R. J. Moors
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:54

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:53

  38. Authors: Sarper Yılmaz, Ali Cankut Tatlıparmak and Rohat Ak
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:53

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:39

    The Invited Commentary to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:54

  39. Authors: Rohat AK, Ali Cankut Tatliparmak and Sarper Yilmaz
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:52

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:41

    The Invited Commentary to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:56

  40. Pediatric trauma patients constitute a significant portion of the trauma population treated by Swedish Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and trauma remains a notable cause of death among Swedish children. Prev...

    Authors: Glenn Larsson, Sanna Larsson, Viktoria Strand, Carl Magnusson and Magnus Andersson Hagiwara
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:51
  41. The prognosis for patients improves significantly with effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by bystanders. Current research indicates that individuals who receive CPR from trained bystanders...

    Authors: Janina Bathe, Anne Daubmann, Christoph Doehn, Antonia Napp, Marco Raudies and Stefanie Beck
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:50
  42. There has been a rapid expansion in the use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) by emergency medical services (EMS). However, less than a third of UK EMS utilise imaging archiving for POCUS, and fewer rev...

    Authors: Shadman Aziz, Christopher T. Edmunds and Jon Barratt
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:49
  43. Life-threatening conditions are infrequent in children. Current literature in paediatric prehospital research is centred around trauma and paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (POHCA). The aims of this s...

    Authors: Vibe Maria Laden Nielsen, Morten Breinholt Søvsø, Regitze Gyldenholm Skals, Lars Bender, Alasdair Ross Corfield, Hans Morten Lossius, Søren Mikkelsen and Erika Frischknecht Christensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:48
  44. Care for injured patients in England is provided by inclusive regional trauma networks. Ambulance services use triage tools to identify patients with major trauma who would benefit from expedited Major Trauma ...

    Authors: G. Fuller, J. Baird, S. Keating, J. Miller, R. Pilbery, N. Kean, K. McKnee, J. Turner, F. Lecky, A. Edwards, A. Rosser, R. Fothergill, S. Black, F. Bell, M. Smyth, JE. Smith…
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:47
  45. Team leadership skills of physicians working in high-performing medical teams are directly related to outcome. It is currently unclear how these skills can best be developed. Therefore, in this multi-national ...

    Authors: J. A. Deodatus, M. A. Kratz, M. Steller, N. Veeger, B. Dercksen, R. M. Lyon, M. Rehn, L. Rognås, C. Coniglio, B. Sheridan, C. Tschautscher, D. J. Lockey and E. ter Avest
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:46
  46. Major trauma has a significant effect on Health-Related Quality of Life (HR-QoL). It is unclear, however, which factors most affect HR-QoL. This study aims to evaluate HR-QoL after severe injury in Finland and...

    Authors: Antti Riuttanen, Vilma Brand, Jarkko Jokihaara, Tuomas T. Huttunen and Ville M. Mattila
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:45
  47. For trauma patients with subsequent immediate surgery, it is unclear which surgical disciplines are most commonly required for treatment, and whether and to what extend this might depend on or change with “hyp...

    Authors: Moritz Witzenhausen, Björn Hossfeld, Martin Kulla and Christian Beltzer
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:44
  48. This research investigated surgical interventions for the treatment of extremity and pelvic fractures and aimed to provide an analysis of management challenges under crisis conditions in a Level I Trauma Cente...

    Authors: Mehmet Yiğit Gökmen, Mesut Uluöz, Özhan Pazarcı, Osman Çiloğlu and Hasan Orkun Varmış
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:43
  49. Current guidelines from Scandinavian Neuro Committee mandate a 24-hour observation for head trauma patients on anticoagulants, even with normal initial head CT scans, as a means not to miss delayed intracrania...

    Authors: Lars André, Anders Björkelund, Ulf Ekelund, Tomas Vedin, Jonas Björk and Jakob Lundager Forberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:42

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