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  1. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a frequent and acute medical condition that requires immediate care. We estimate survival rates from OHCA in the area of Stockholm, through developing an analytical too...

    Authors: Björn Sund
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:8
  2. Traditional vital signs (TVS), including systolic blood pressure (SBP), heart rate (HR) and their composite, the shock index, may be poor prognostic indicators in geriatric trauma patients. The purpose of this...

    Authors: Kristin M Salottolo, Charles W Mains, Patrick J Offner, Pamela W Bourg and David Bar-Or
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:7
  3. The LUCAS™ device delivers mechanical chest compressions that have been shown in experimental studies to improve perfusion pressures to the brain and heart as well as augmenting cerebral blood flow and end tid...

    Authors: Sten Rubertsson, Johan Silfverstolpe, Liselott Rehn, Thomas Nyman, Rob Lichtveld, Rene Boomars, Wendy Bruins, Björn Ahlstedt, Helena Puggioli, Erik Lindgren, David Smekal, Gunnar Skoog, Robert Kastberg, Anna Lindblad, David Halliwell, Martyn Box…
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:5
  4. Still picture transmission was performed using a telemedicine system in an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) during a prospective, controlled trial. In this ancillary, retrospective study the quality and content...

    Authors: Sebastian Bergrath, Rolf Rossaint, Niklas Lenssen, Christina Fitzner and Max Skorning
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:3
  5. A selective non-operative management (SNOM) has found to be an adequate and safe strategy to assess and treat patients suffering from penetrating trauma of the extremities (PTE). With this SNOM comes a strateg...

    Authors: Oscar JF Van Waes, Esther MM Van Lieshout, Wouter Hogendoorn, Jens A Halm and Jefrey Vermeulen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:2
  6. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a common medical emergency with significant mortality and significant neurological morbidity. Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) may be tasked to OHCA. We sou...

    Authors: Richard M Lyon and Magnus J Nelson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013 21:1
  7. The prognostic role of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in septic patients is controversial. The study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of BNP in critically ill septic patients. Furthermore, because B...

    Authors: Zhongheng Zhang, Zhengguang Zhang, Yadong Xue, Xiao Xu and Hongying Ni
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:86
  8. Although there are numerous supraglottic airway alternatives to endotracheal intubation, it remains unclear which airway technique is optimal for use in prehospital cardiac arrests. We evaluated the use of the...

    Authors: Geir A Sunde, Guttorm Brattebø, Terje Ødegården, Dag F Kjernlie, Emma Rødne and Jon-Kenneth Heltne
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:84
  9. The relationship between severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and blood levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) or cellular fibronectin (c-Fn) has never been reported. In this study, we aimed to assess whe...

    Authors: Jean-Christophe Copin, Marie My Lien Rebetez, Natacha Turck, Xavier Robin, Jean-Charles Sanchez, Karl Schaller, Yvan Gasche and Bernhard Walder
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:83
  10. Severe paediatric trauma patients benefit from direct transport to dedicated Paediatric Trauma Centres (PTC). Parallel case identification systems utilising paramedics from a centralised dispatch centre versus...

    Authors: Alan A Garner, Anna Lee and Andrew Weatherall
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:82
  11. Timely decisions concerning mobilization and allocation of resources and distribution of casualties are crucial in medical management of major incidents. The aim of this study was to evaluate documented initia...

    Authors: Heléne Nilsson, Tore Vikström and Carl-Oscar Jonson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:81
  12. Despite the efforts of the modern Emergency Medical Service Systems (EMS), survival rates for sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) have been poor as approximately 10% of OHCA patients survive hospital ...

    Authors: Pamela Hiltunen, Markku Kuisma, Tom Silfvast, Juha Rutanen, Jukka Vaahersalo and Jouni Kurola
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:80
  13. Multiplayer virtual world (MVW) technology creates opportunities to practice medical procedures and team interactions using serious game software. This study aims to explore medical students’ retention of know...

    Authors: Johan Creutzfeldt, Leif Hedman and Li Felländer-Tsai
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:79
  14. Trauma is the leading cause of death in young people with an injury related mortality rate of 47.6/100,000 in European high income countries. Early deaths often result from rapidly evolving and deteriorating s...

    Authors: Sigune Peiniger, Thomas Paffrath, Manuel Mutschler, Thomas Brockamp, Matthew Borgmann, Philip C Spinella, Bertil Bouillon and Marc Maegele
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:78
  15. Trauma tertiary surveys (TTS) are advocated to reduce the rate of missed injuries in hospitalized trauma patients. Moreover, the missed injury rate can be a quality indicator of trauma care performance. Curren...

    Authors: Gerben B Keijzers, Georgios F Giannakopoulos, Chris Del Mar, Fred C Bakker and Leo MG Geeraedts Jr
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:77
  16. Although there is a major need to record and analyse presenting complaints in emergency departments (EDs), no international standard exists. The aim of the present study was to produce structured complaint cla...

    Authors: Tomi Malmström, Olli Huuskonen, Paulus Torkki and Raija Malmström
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:76
  17. The prevalence of cardiac arrest among patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage [SAH], and the prevalence of SAH as the cause following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest [OHCA] or in-hospital cardiac arrest [IHCA] ...

    Authors: Markus B Skrifvars and Michael J Parr
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:75
  18. The aim of the study was to evaluate the long-term outcome of patients successfully resuscitated from pre-hospital cardiac arrest with initial pulseless electrical activity (PEA), because the long-term outcome...

    Authors: Sini Saarinen, Antti Kämäräinen, Tom Silfvast, Arvi Yli-Hankala and Ilkka Virkkunen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:74
  19. In newborn resuscitation the recommended rate of chest compressions should be 90 per minute and 30 ventilations should be delivered each minute, aiming at achieving a total of 120 events per minute. However, t...

    Authors: Anne L Solevåg, Jorunn Marie Madland, Espen Gjærum and Britt Nakstad
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:73
  20. Implementation of new guidelines into clinical practice is often incomplete. Direct mail is a simple way of providing information to physicians and may improve implementation of new guidelines on basic life su...

    Authors: Niels Secher, Mette Marie Mikkelsen, Kasper Adelborg, Ronni Mikkelsen, Erik Lerkevang Grove, Jens Mørch Rubak, Peter Vedsted and Bo Løfgren
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:72
  21. 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 tim...

    Authors: Birgitte Nørgaard and Christian Backer Mogensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:71
  22. In patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) reperfusion therapy should be initiated as soon as possible. This study evaluated whether use of a helicopter for transportation of patients is assoc...

    Authors: Lars Knudsen, Carsten Stengaard, Troels Martin Hansen, Jens Flensted Lassen and Christian Juhl Terkelsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:70
  23. Hyperglycemia following major trauma is a well know phenomenon related to stress-induced systemic reaction. Reports on glucose level management in patients with head trauma have been published, but the develop...

    Authors: Manuela Bonizzoli, Giovanni Zagli, Chiara Lazzeri, Sara Degl’Innocenti, Gianfranco Gensini and Adriano Peris
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:69
  24. Care of the polytrauma patient does not end in the operating room or resuscitation bay. The patient presenting to the intensive care unit following initial resuscitation and damage control surgery may be far f...

    Authors: Roger F Shere-Wolfe, Samuel M Galvagno Jr and Thomas E Grissom
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:68
  25. A common feature of prehospital emergency care is the short and fragmentary patient encounters with increased demands for efficient and rapid treatment. Crucial decisions are often made and the premise is the ...

    Authors: Anna Abelsson and Lillemor Lindwall
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:67
  26. Subspecialisation within general surgery has today reached further than ever. However, on-call time, an unchanged need for broad surgical skills are required to meet the demands of acute surgical disease and t...

    Authors: Fawzi al-Ayoubi, Helen Eriksson, Pär Myrelid, Conny Wallon and Peter Andersson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:66
  27. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a significant public health problem in most westernized industrialized nations. In spite of national and international guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ...

    Authors: Gordon A Ewy
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:65
  28. Traditionally, surgical diseases including emergency and injury care have garnered less attention and support internationally when compared to other medical specialties. Over the past decade however, healthcar...

    Authors: Joseph V Sakran, Sarah E Greer, Evan Werlin and Maureen McCunn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:64
  29. Many injury severity scoring tools have been developed over the past few decades. These tools include the Injury Severity Score (ISS), New ISS (NISS), Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) and International...

    Authors: Hideo Tohira, Ian Jacobs, David Mountain, Nick Gibson and Allen Yeo
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:63
  30. 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 guid...

    Authors: Ingrid Haavde Strand, Ole Solheim, Kent Gøran Moen and Anne Vik
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:62
  31. To validate the role of high mobility group box-1(HMGB1) in diagnosis of acute appendicitis (AA) with different pathological severity.

    Authors: Chuanxin Wu, Hang Sun, Hongliang Wang, Junmeng Chi, Qi Liu, Hui Guo and Jianping Gong
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:61
  32. To compare the Sliding with Non-sliding lag screw of a gamma nail in the treatment of A1 and A2 AO-OTA intertrochanteric fractures.

    Authors: Yi Zhu, Severin Meili, Changqing Zhang, Congfeng Luo and Bing-fang Zeng
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:60
  33. The use of mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has great potential for the clinical setting. The purpose of present study is to compare the hemodynamics and ventilation during and after the load-dis...

    Authors: Shuo Wang, Jun-Yuan Wu and Chun-Sheng Li
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:59
  34. Disaster medicine is a fairly young scientific discipline and there is a need for the development of new methods for evaluation and research. This includes full-scale disaster exercisers. A standardized concep...

    Authors: Monica Rådestad, Heléne Nilsson, Maaret Castrén, Leif Svensson, Anders Rüter and Dan Gryth
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:58
  35. The management of emergency departments (EDs) principally involves maintaining effective patient flow and care. Different triage models are used today to achieve these two goals. The aim of this study was to c...

    Authors: Lena Burström, Martin Nordberg, Göran Örnung, Maaret Castrén, Tony Wiklund, Marie-Louise Engström and Mats Enlund
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:57
  36. The outcome of severely injured or ill patients can be time dependent. Short activation and approach times for emergency medical service (EMS) units are widely recognized to be important quality indicators. Th...

    Authors: Iztok Tomazin, Miljana Vegnuti, John Ellerton, Oliver Reisten, Guenther Sumann and Janko Kersnik
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:56
  37. Drowning is a major source of mortality and morbidity in children worldwide. Neurocognitive outcome of children after drowning incidents cannot be accurately predicted in the early course of treatment. Therefo...

    Authors: Pertti K Suominen and Raisa Vähätalo
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:55
  38. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome are clinical entities of multi-factorial origin frequently seen in traumatically injured patients requiring intensive care. We performed an unsystemati...

    Authors: Magdalena Bakowitz, Brandon Bruns and Maureen McCunn
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:54
  39. Effective delivery of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and prompt defibrillation following sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is vital. Updated guidelines for adult basic life support (BLS) were published in 2010 ...

    Authors: Christopher M Jones, Andrew Owen, Christopher J Thorne and Jonathan Hulme
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:53
  40. Recently, computed tomography (CT) has gained importance in the early diagnostic phase of trauma care in the emergency room. We implemented a new trauma workflow concept with CT in our emergency room that allo...

    Authors: Daiki Wada, Yasushi Nakamori, Kazuma Yamakawa and Satoshi Fujimi
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:52
  41. Venous gas embolism is common after laparoscopic surgery but is only rarely of clinical relevance. We present a 52 year old woman undergoing laparoscopic treatment for liver cysts, who also underwent cholecyst...

    Authors: Thomas Kjeld, Egon G Hansen, Nana G Holler, Henrik Rottensten, Ole Hyldegaard and Eric C Jansen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:51
  42. Immobilisation of the cervical spine is a common procedure following traumatic injury. This is often precautionary as the actual incidence of spinal injury is low. Nonetheless, stabilisation of the head and ne...

    Authors: Sarah Voss, Michael Page and Jonathan Benger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:50
  43. Changes in poisoning trends may affect both complications and outcomes in patients with acute poisoning. This study reports the treatments given and the frequency of complications, also related to treatment, m...

    Authors: Cathrine Lund, Per Drottning, Birgitte Stiksrud, Javad Vahabi, Marianne Lyngra, Ivind Ekeberg, Dag Jacobsen and Knut Erik Hovda
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:49
  44. There is still a considerable delay between the onset of symptoms and arrival at a stroke unit for most patients with acute stroke.

    Authors: Ingela Wennman, Paula Klittermark, Johan Herlitz, Bodil Lernfelt, Mats Kihlgren, Claes Gustafsson and Per-Olof Hansson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:48
  45. Hemorrhage remains a major cause of potentially preventable deaths. Trauma and massive transfusion are associated with coagulopathy secondary to tissue injury, hypoperfusion, dilution, and consumption of clott...

    Authors: Pär I Johansson, Jakob Stensballe and Sisse R Ostrowski
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:47
  46. Catheter angiography is often arranged when vascular contrast extravasations on computed tomography (VCEC) presents after blunt torso trauma. However, catheter angiograph can be negative for bleeding and furth...

    Authors: Kuo-Ching Yuan, Yon-Cheong Wong, Being-Chung Lin, Shih-Ching Kang, Erh-Hao Liu and Yu-Pao Hsu
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:46
  47. Rapid developments in intensive care medicine have made mechanical ventilation an essential method in the resuscitation and comprehensive treatment of critical care patients. This study aimed to develop and ev...

    Authors: Hong Li, Li-Li Chen and Na Li
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:45
  48. In emergency situations, it is important for the trauma team to efficiently communicate their observations and assessments. One common communication strategy is “closed-loop communication”, which can be descri...

    Authors: Maritha Jacobsson, Maria Hargestam, Magnus Hultin and Christine Brulin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2012 20:44

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