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- 1From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA 2-year-old boy found in cardiac arrest secondary to drowning received standard CPR for 35 minutes and was transported to a tertiary hospital for rewarming from hypothermia. Chest compressions in hospital were...
- 2From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground There is a paucity of data regarding clinical outcomes associated with the integration of a mild therapeutic hypothermia (MTH) protocol into a regional network dedicated to treatment of patients with acute...
- 3From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The utility of advanced prehospital interventions for severe blunt traumatic brain injury (BTI) remains controversial. Of all trauma patient subgroups it has been anticipated that this patient group would...
- 4From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Thrombelastography is a laboratorial test that measures viscoelastic changes of the entire clotting process. There is growing interest in its clinical use in trauma resuscitation, particularly for managing...
- 5From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Long waiting times for emergency care are claimed to be caused by overcrowded emergency departments and non-effective working routines. Teamwork has been suggested as a promising solution to these issues....
- 6From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjectives To evaluate the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a physician staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) using a monitor-defibrillator with a quality analysis feature. As a post...
- 7From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe emergency medical services (EMS) cover initiatives and services established to provide essential medical assistance in situations of acute illness. Triage-methods for systematic prioritizing of patients according to...
- 8From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Peter Hallas1 , Ulf Ekelund2 , Lars Petter Bjarnsen3,4 and Mikkel Brabrand5 Editorial Friday the 6th of July, 2012, was a great day for emergency medicine (EM) in Scandinavia: As the first in...
- 9From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The effect of rescue breathing on neurologic prognosis after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is controversial. Therefore, we investigated the cerebral microcirculatory and oxygen metabolism during...
- 10From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Scandinavian Starch for Severe Sepsis / Septic Shock (6S) trial showed that hydroxyethyl starch was harmful compared to Ringer's acetate in patients with severe sepsis when used according to clinical practice and in...
- 11From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDespite ongoing controversial expert discussions the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently recommended to suspend marketing authorisations for hydroxyethyl starch. This comment critically evaluates the line of...
- 12From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLarge randomized trials on critically ill patients have related the use of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) to negative outcomes. In a recent comment we explained in detail why, from our point of view, transferring the results...
- 13From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBrain injury is the dominant cause of death for cardiac arrest patients who are admitted to an intensive care unit, and the majority of patients die after withdrawal of life sustaining therapy (WLST) based on a presumed...
- 14From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Kate Crewdson1 and David J Lockey1,2 Emergency cricothyroidotomy is a life saving intervention included as the final step in most guidelines addressing the management of the emergency airway [1, 2]. The...
- 15From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The effects of multiple injuries on the neurological and functional outcomes of patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) are debated--some groups have shown that subjects with multiple injuries...
- 16From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground This study evaluated the association between the results of immediate brain computed tomography (CT) scans and outcome in patients who were treated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. The...
- 17From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground A large number of techniques and devices for cricothyroidotomy have been developed. In this study, the Portex[TM] Cricothyroidotomy Kit (PCK, Smiths Medical Ltd, Hythe, UK) was compared with the bougie...
- 18From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The aim of the present pilot study was to determine if pulse photoplethysmography amplitude (PPGA) could be used as an indicator of critical illness and as a predictor of higher need of care in emergency...
- 19From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion on hemodynamic parameters including transpulmonary thermodilution (TPTD)-derived variables. Methods We compared...
- 20From: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The incidence of pulmonary failure in trauma patients is considered to be influenced by several factors such as liver injury. We intended to assess the association of various potential predictors of...