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Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:20
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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 -
The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) in acutely hospitalised medical patients: a cohort study
Sepsis is an infection which has evoked a systemic inflammatory response. Clinically, the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) is identified by two or more symptoms including fever or hypothermia, ta...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:67 -
"Getting your message through": an editorial guide for meeting publication standards
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:66 -
Hypothermia in bleeding trauma: a friend or a foe?
The induction of hypothermia for cellular protection is well established in several clinical settings. Its role in trauma patients, however, is controversial. This review discusses the benefits and complicatio...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:65 -
Blunt traumatic pericardial rupture and cardiac herniation with a penetrating twist: two case reports
Blunt Traumatic Pericardial Rupture (BTPR) with resulting cardiac herniation following chest trauma is an unusual and often fatal condition. Although there has been a multitude of case reports of this conditio...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:64 -
No fate but what we make: a case of full recovery after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
An 80 years old man suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after arrival to his local health department. Basic Life Support was started promptly and nine minutes later, on evaluation by an Advanced Life Support tea...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:63 -
Selection of patients with severe pelvic fracture for early angiography remains controversial
Patients with severe pelvic fractures represent about 3% of all skeletal fractures. Hemodynamic compromise in unstable pelvic fractures is associated with arterial hemorrhage in less than 20% of patients. Angi...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:62 -
The effect of combined treatment with morphine sulphate and low-dose ketamine in a prehospital setting
Pain is a common condition among prehospital patients. The present study is designed to determine whether adding low-dose ketamine as additional analgesia improves the pain/nausea scores and hemodynamic parame...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:61 -
Randomized clinical trial of bedside ultrasound among patients with abdominal pain in the emergency department: impact on patient satisfaction and health care consumption
Previous research shows that surgeon-performed ultrasound for patients presenting with abdominal pain in the emergency department leads both to higher diagnostic accuracy and to other benefits. We have evaluat...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:60 -
Mannequin or standardized patient: participants' assessment of two training modalities in trauma team simulation
Trauma team training using simulation has become an educational compensation for a low number of severe trauma patients in 49 of Norway's 50 trauma hospitals for the last 12 years. The hospitals' own simple ma...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:59 -
A consensus-based template for uniform reporting of data from pre-hospital advanced airway management
Advanced airway management is a critical intervention that can harm the patient if performed poorly. The available literature on this subject is rich, but it is difficult to interpret due to a huge variability...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:58 -
Injury severity and serum amyloid A correlate with plasma oxidation-reduction potential in multi-trauma patients: a retrospective analysis
In critical injury, the occurrence of increased oxidative stress or a reduced antioxidant status has been observed. The purpose of this study was to correlate the degree of oxidative stress, by measuring the o...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:57 -
Re: Infection control in burn patients: are fungal infections underestimated?
A response to Struck MF. Infection control in burn patients: are fungal infections underestimated? Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2009 Oct 9;17(1):51. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19818134.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:56 -
Risk of symptomatic heterotopic ossification following plate osteosynthesis in multiple trauma patients: an analysis in a level-1 trauma centre
Symptomatic heterotopic ossification (HO) in multiple trauma patients may lead to follow up surgery, furthermore the long-term outcome can be restricted. Knowledge of the effect of surgical treatment on format...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:55 -
Prehospital cooling in cardiac arrest - the next frontier?
Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is now a well-documented part of post-resuscitation care. Implementation of TH into daily clinical practice has be...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:54 -
Prehospital therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest - from current concepts to a future standard
Therapeutic hypothermia has been shown to improve survival and neurological outcome after prehospital cardiac arrest. Existing experimental and clinical evidence supports the notion that delayed cooling result...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:53 -
Out-of-hospital therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest victims
Despite many years of research, outcome after cardiac arrest is dismal. Since 2005, the European Resuscitation Council recommends in its guidelines the use of mild therapeutic hypothermia (32-34°) for 12 to 24...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:52 -
Infection control in burn patients: are fungal infections underestimated?
With great interest, I read the paper of David J. Dries about recent developments, infection control and outcomes research in the management of burn injuries [1]. I have some comments about an important, however ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:51 -
Management of a massive thoracoabdominal impalement: a case report
A 26 year old male was impaled through his chest and upper abdomen with an iron angle, one and half meter long and five centimeters thick. The iron angle entered the chest, through the epigastrium and exited p...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:50 -
IL-6 predicts organ dysfunction and mortality in patients with multiple injuries
Although therapeutic concepts of patients with major trauma have improved during recent years, organ dysfunction still remains a frequent complication during clinical course in intensive care units. It has pre...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:49 -
Leadership is the essential non-technical skill in the trauma team - results of a qualitative study
Trauma is the leading cause of death for young people in Norway. Studies indicate that several of these deaths are avoidable if the patient receives correct initial treatment. The trauma team is responsible fo...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:48 -
Critical Care in the Emergency Department: An assessment of the length of stay and invasive procedures performed on critically ill ED patients
Critically ill patients commonly present to the ED and require aggressive resuscitation. Patient transfer to an ICU environment in an expedient manner is considered optimal care. However, this patient populati...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:47 -
Right-sided "trapdoor" incision provides necessary exposure of complex cervicothoracic vascular injury: a case report
Combined cervicothoracical vascular traumas are very uncommon, mostly resulting from penetrating injuries. These injuries are accompanied with very high morbidity and mortality rates. In this manuscript we pre...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:46 -
Thrombelastography and tromboelastometry in assessing coagulopathy in trauma
Death due to trauma is the leading cause of lost life years worldwide, with haemorrhage being responsible for 30-40% of trauma mortality and accounting for almost 50% of the deaths the initial 24 h. On admissi...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:45 -
Why Do We Put Cervical Collars On Conscious Trauma Patients?
In this commentary we argue that fully alert, stable and co-operative trauma patients do not require the application of a semi-rigid cervical collar, even if they are suspected of underlying cervical spine fra...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:44 -
Pathophysiology of the systemic inflammatory response after major accidental trauma
The purpose of the present study was to describe the pathophysiology of the systemic inflammatory response after major trauma and the timing of final reconstructive surgery.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:43 -
Vascular injuries after blunt chest trauma: diagnosis and management
Although relatively rare, blunt injury to thoracic great vessels is the second most common cause of trauma related death after head injury. Over the last twenty years, the paradigm for management of these deva...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:42 -
Personal experience with whole-body, low-dosage, digital X-ray scanning (LODOX-Statscan) in trauma
Lodox-Statscan is a whole-body, skeletal and soft-tissue, low-dose X-ray scanner Anterior-posterior and lateral thoraco-abdominal studies are obtained in 3-5 minutes with only about one-third of the radiation ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:41 -
Emergency presentation and management of acute severe asthma in children
Acute severe asthma is one of the most common medical emergency situations in childhood, and physicians caring for acutely ill children are regularly faced with this condition. In this article we present a sum...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:40 -
Knowledge of Glasgow coma scale by air-rescue physicians
To assess the theoretical and practical knowledge of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) by trained Air-rescue physicians in Switzerland.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17:39 -
Post-traumatic stress symptoms two years after severe multiple injuries – self-reported disability and psychosocial functioning
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17(Suppl 3):O14
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