Traumatic cardiac arrest in Sweden 1990-2016 - a population-based national cohort study.

abstract：BACKGROUND: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. We aimed to document the epidemiology of contacts made to the public emergency medical phone number a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Ellensen EN,Hunskaar S,Wisborg T,Zakariassen E

更新日期：2014-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Population estimates projects a significant increase in the geriatric population making elderly trauma patients more common. The geriatric trauma patients experience higher incidence of pre-existing medical conditions, impaired age-dependent physiologic reserve, use potent drugs and suffer from trauma system related s...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Rehn M

更新日期：2013-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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. METHODS:The patients were retrospectively identified from the laboratory information system and clinical and radiologica...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Fjeldsøe-Nielsen H,Gjeraa K,Berthelsen BG,Dessau RB

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2015 AHA guidelines recommend that amiodarone should be used for patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF). However, the optimal time interval between the incoming call and amiodarone administration (call-to-amiodarone administration interval) in RVF patients has not been investigated. We h...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Lee DK,Kim YJ,Kim G,Lee CA,Moon HJ,Oh J,Yang HC,Choi HJ,Oh YT,Park SM

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 intervention (laparotomy or transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE)) and mortality. METHODS:This was a c...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Katsura M,Yamazaki S,Fukuma S,Matsushima K,Yamashiro T,Fukuhara S

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 related to oxidative stress and reduction of nitric oxide bioavailability. Moreover, several studies dem...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Ciscato JG Jr,Capellini VK,Celotto AC,Baldo CF,Joviliano EE,Evora PR,Dalio MB,Piccinato CE

更新日期：2010-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telephone triage entails assessment of urgency and direction of flow in out-of-hours (OOH) services, while visual cues are inherently lacking. Triage tools are recommended but current tools fail to provide systematic assessment of the caller's perspective. Research demonstrated that callers can scale their d...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Gamst-Jensen H,Frishknecht Christensen E,Lippert F,Folke F,Egerod I,Brabrand M,Tolstrup JS,Thygesen LC,Huibers L

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 quality of ventilation can be demonstrated during CPR using supraglottic airway devices (SADs). Previous s...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Schälte G,Stoppe C,Rossaint R,Gilles L,Heuser M,Rex S,Coburn M,Zoremba N,Rieg A

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Major incidents are resource-demanding situations that require urgent and effective medical management. The possibility to extract learning from them is therefore important. Comparative analysis of information based on uniform data collection from previous incidents may facilitate learning. The Major Incident Reportin...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Fattah S,Rehn M,Wisborg T

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:After the early implementation of Emergency Medicine (EM) 25 years ago, Iceland became the first Nordic country to nationally realize the benefits of this specialty. However, the road has been rocky as in many other countries. The early years of EM in Iceland were characterized by a significant shortage of resources, ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Baldursson J,Björnsson HM,Palomäki A

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Avalanche rescues mostly rely on helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) and include technical rescue and complex medical situations under difficult conditions. The adequacy of avalanche victim management has been shown to be unexpectedly low, suggesting the need for quality improvement. We analyse the ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Kottmann A,Carron PN,Theiler L,Albrecht R,Tissi M,Pasquier M

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has affected prehospital care systems across the world, but the prehospital presentation of affected patients and the extent to which prehospital care providers are able to identify them is not well characterized. In this study, we describe the presentat...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Spangler D,Blomberg H,Smekal D

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECT:The aim of the study was to evaluate the early changes in pituitary hormone levels after severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) and compare hormone levels to basic neuro-intensive care data, a systematic scoring of the CT-findings and to evaluate whether hormone changes are related to outcome. METHODS:Prospective...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Olivecrona Z,Dahlqvist P,Koskinen LO

更新日期：2013-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study compares the assessment, treatment, referral, and follow up contact with the dispatch centre of emergency patients treated by two types of solo emergency care providers in ambulance emergency medical services (EMS) in the Netherlands: the physician assistant (PA), educated in the medical domain, a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Bloemhoff A,Schoonhoven L,de Kreek AJ,van Grunsven PM,Laurant MG,Berben SA

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The scientific evidence of a beneficial effect of physicians in prehospital treatment is scarce. The objective of this systematic review of controlled studies was to examine whether physicians, as opposed to paramedical personnel, increase patient survival in prehospital treatment and if so, to identify the ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Bøtker MT,Bakke SA,Christensen EF

更新日期：2009-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Exsanguination due to uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of potentially preventable deaths among trauma patients. About one third of trauma patients present with coagulopathy on admission, which is associated with increased mortality and will aggravate bleeding in a traumatized patient. Thrombelast...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Nystrup KB,Windeløv NA,Thomsen AB,Johansson PI

更新日期：2011-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 increased risk of cancer. The purpose of this study was to determine some effects of a radiation do...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Kim SH,Jung SE,Oh SH,Park KN,Youn CS

更新日期：2011-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time is a crucial factor in an emergency department and the effectiveness of diagnosing depends on, among other things, the accessibility of rapid reported laboratory test results; i.e.: a short turnaround time (TAT). Former studies have shown a reduced time to action when point of care technologies (POCT) a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Nørgaard B,Mogensen CB

更新日期：2012-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study prospectively assesses clinical characteristics and management of consecutive minimal, mild and moderate head injury patients referred for CT scans. Compliance with the Scandinavian head injury guidelines and possible reasons for non-compliance is explored. METHODS:From January 16th 2006 to Janua...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Strand IH,Solheim O,Moen KG,Vik A

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of COVID-19 transmission to healthcare professionals is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE) presents a number of potential challenges to responders that may impact upon the management of patients in a multi-casualty incident. This report ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Raitt J,Watts B,Rayet J,Hodkinson M,Zideman D

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As an adjunct to physical examination, ultrasound is a potentially attractive option for diagnosing pneumothoraces in the pre-hospital and retrieval environment - and could confer a benefit to patient safety. However, the published evidence supporting non-physicians use of ultrasound in this setting is limit...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Ronaldson J,Moultrie CEJ,Corfield AR,McElhinney E

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study investigates the incidence, aetiology, and outcome of hypoglycaemia of patients without diabetes in the EMS. METHODS:The study was a retrospective cohort study that utilized electronic EMS patient record system (population of one million). All patients encountered by EMS with plasma glucos...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Vihonen H,Kuisma M,Nurmi J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival. In settings with prolonged ambulance response times, skilled bystanders may be even more crucial. In 2010, American Heart Association (AHA) and European Resuscitation Council (ERC) introduced compression-only CPR as ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Orkin AM

更新日期：2013-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some comprehensive cancer centers in industrialized countries have reported improved outcomes in their cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) patients. Little is known about the outcomes and predictors of CPA in cancer centers in other parts of the world. The objective of this study was to examine the predictors of CP...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Khasawneh FA,Kamel MT,Abu-Zaid MI

更新日期：2013-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs) dispatch and allocate ambulance resources, and provide first-aid guidance to on-scene bystanders. We aimed to 1) evaluate whether dispatcher guidance improved bystander first aid in trauma, and 2) to evaluate whether dispatchers and on-scene emergency medical s...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Bakke HK,Steinvik T,Ruud H,Wisborg T

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In critically ill patients intravascular volume status and pulmonary edema need to be quantified as soon as possible. Many critically ill patients undergo a computed tomography (CT)-scan of the thorax after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). This study investigates whether CT-based estimation of car...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Saugel B,Holzapfel K,Stollfuss J,Schuster T,Phillip V,Schultheiss C,Schmid RM,Huber W

更新日期：2011-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up to 25% of stroke patients wake up with a neurological deficit, so called wake-up stroke (WUS). Different imaging approaches that may aid in the selection of patients likely to benefit from reperfusion therapy are currently under investigation. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diffusion weighted imagin...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Odland A,Særvoll P,Advani R,Kurz MW,Kurz KD

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are three different types of ambulance systems, all of which can manage the same secondary intensive care patient transport mission: road ambulance, rotor-wing ambulance, and fixed-wing ambulance. We hypothesized that costs for specific transport distances would differ between systems. We aimed to anal...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Brändström H,Winsö O,Lindholm L,Haney M

更新日期：2014-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：: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 patient presents to theatre with physiological instability. A significant percentage of these patients will no...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Yilmaz TH,Ndofor BC,Smith MD,Degiannis E

更新日期：2010-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of rescue breathing on neurologic prognosis after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is controversial. Therefore, we investigated the cerebral microcirculatory and oxygen metabolism during continuous compression (CC) and 30:2 CPR (VC) in a porcine model of cardiac arrest to determine which is bet...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine

authors： Yang L,Wang S,Li CS

更新日期：2013-07-12 00:00:00