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  1. Norwegian hospitals employed individual trauma triage criteria until 2015 when nationwide criteria were implemented. There is a lack of empirical evidence regarding adherence to Norwegian national criteria for...

    Authors: Einar Frigstad Hoås, Waleed Mohammed Majeed, Olav Røise and Oddvar Uleberg
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:133
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  2. Accidental hypothermia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and poses a significant challenge for both professional and volunteer rescue services in prehospital settings. This study investigate...

    Authors: Tea Wick Barsten, Emilie Sunde, Øyvind Thomassen and Sigurd Mydske
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:131
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  3. Human organ transplantation has begun in the 1960s with donation after circulatory death. At that time this was named non heart beating donation, later donation after cardiac death and nowadays it is named don...

    Authors: Yann Pionnier, Tom Darius, Andrea Penaloza, Francoise Steenebruggen, Florence Dupriez, Arne Neyrinck and Cornelia Genbrugge
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:130
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  4. Improving prehospital emergency care requires a comprehensive understanding of the efficiency of emergency medical services and demand fluctuations. The medical emergency call is the primary contact between ci...

    Authors: Thea Palsgaard Møller, Josefine Tangen Jensen, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg and Helle Collatz Christensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:129
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  5. Trauma teams handle severely injured patients under high temporal demands and need to coordinate and achieve collaborative decision-making and task execution through communication. Specific coordination and co...

    Authors: Liselott Fornander, Maria Garrido Granhagen, Ida Molin, Kati Laukkanen, Karin Björnström Karlsson, Peter Berggren and Lena Nilsson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:128
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  7. Norway faced the possibility of the most significant strain on its intensive care capacity in decades during the COVID-19 pandemic. All Regional Health Authorities in Norway were instructed to prepare for an i...

    Authors: Øyvind Østerås, Stian Almeland, Håvard Landsdalen, Stig Gjerde, Jan Knudtzon Sommerfelt-Pettersen and Hans Flaatten
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:126
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  8. War causes severe suffering and harm to the civilian population. Knowledge about civilian injury patterns constitutes a part of the dimensioned planning and preparedness for medical care and civilian defence i...

    Authors: Karl Chevalley, Jonas Zimmerman, Anton Mittendorf, Filippa Sennersten, Anton Dalman, Safora Frogh, Theo Ringart, Yohan Robinson and Göran Sandström
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:125
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. The management of avalanche victims in cardiac arrest (CA) is a challenging situation for rescuers. Despite existing specific management algorithms, previous studies have reported poor compliance with internat...

    Authors: Maxime Trolliet, Mathieu Pasquier, Marc Blancher, Roland Albrecht, Alban Lovis, Hermann Brugger and Alexandre Kottmann
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:124
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  10. Timely and effective pre-hospital management of penetrating neck injuries (PNI) is critical to improve patient outcomes. Pre-hospital interventions in patients with PNI can be especially challenging due to the...

    Authors: Christopher Simpson, Harriet Tucker, Joanne Griggs, Maja Gavrilovski, Richard Lyon and Anthony Hudson
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:123
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  11. Helicopter hoist operations (HHO) are an important option for rescue operations in rugged and challenging terrain. German mid-range mountains are characterized by the versatility of ground conditions, few urba...

    Authors: Sebastian Heinrich, Christoph Wielant, Frank Lerch, Mirko Friedrich, Jörg Braun, Florian Reifferscheid and Hans-Jörg Busch
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:122
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  12. Care home residents are at higher risk compared with community dwelling elders for medical emergencies, often resulting in ambulance attendance and conveyance to hospital. We aimed to determine the factors pre...

    Authors: Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Vanessa Botan, Graham Law, Despina Laparidou, Viet-Hai Phung, Ffion Curtis, Gregory Adam Whitley, Joseph Akanuwe, Elise Rowan, Rachael Fothergill, Susan Bowler, Maria Kordowicz, Nicoya Palastanga, Lissie Wilkins, Robert Spaight, Elizabeth Miller…
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:121
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  13. In 2017 the Swedish public insurance company Löf published national guidelines for in-hospital trauma team activation (TTA), which are now widely adopted in Sweden. No studies have examined triage accuracy at ...

    Authors: Oscar Lapidus, Denise Bäckström, Folke Hammarqvist, Andreas Wladis and Rebecka Rubenson Wahlin
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:120
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  14. Authors: Christophe A. Fehlmann, Kara Mc Loughlin, Emma Jane Cosgrif, John Francis Ferrick and James David van Oppen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:119
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:64

  15. Timely medical management and evacuation of critically ill or injured patients from austere environments or maritime vessels is often achieved by helicopter hoist operations. When indicated, intubation is perf...

    Authors: Sven Christjar Skaiaa, André Roslin, Torfinn Heggland, Sigurd Heian, Trond Elden, Øivind Åreskjold, Hanne Rikstad Iversen, Dag Stian Jakobsen, Mads Sabel and Per Olav Berve
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:118
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  16. Procedural sedation and analgesia is an important part of pediatric emergency care, safe and clinically useful alternatives for adequate management are necessary. The objective of this clinical trial was to ev...

    Authors: Anna Nikula, Malin Ryd Rinder, Stefan Lundeberg, Mitja Lääperi, Katri Sandholm, Maaret Castrén and Lisa Kurland
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:117
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  17. The early assessment of the severity of polytrauma patients is key for their optimal management. The aim of this study was to investigate the discriminative performance of the NACA score in a large dataset by ...

    Authors: Paolo Ivan Fiore, Andrea Stefano Monteleone, Jochen Müller, Giuseppe Filardo, Christian Candrian and Martin Riegger
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:116
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  18. Timing of surgical evacuation of mass lesions in traumatic brain injury (TBI) is crucial. However, due to geographical variations, transportation time to the nearest neurosurgical department may be long. To sa...

    Authors: Francisco Leal-Méndez, Lina Holmberg, Per Enblad, Anders Lewén, Fredrik Linder and Teodor Svedung Wettervik
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:115
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  19. To indicate factors predicting return of spontaneous circulation in patients with hypothermic cardiac arrest in the pre-rewarming period.

    Authors: Paweł Podsiadło, Konrad Mendrala, Hubert Hymczak, Ewelina Nowak, Anna Witt-Majchrzak, Wojciech Dąbrowski, Bartosz Miazgowski, Michał Dudek and Tomasz Darocha
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:114
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  20. Septic shock (SS) is a potential life-threatening condition in which an early identification and immediate therapy stand out as the main cornerstones to improve survival chance; in this context, emergency medi...

    Authors: Ricardo Sebastian Pinto-Villalba, Daniela Balseca-Arellano and Jose E. Leon-Rojas
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:113
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Patients who climb onto the roof of a stationary train carriage and sustain a high voltage electrical injury from the overhead cables represent a rare type of electrical injury. The aim of this study was to re...

    Authors: Aliisa Korkiamäki, Eve Kinnunen, Andrew Lindford and Jyrki Vuola
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:112
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  22. The burden of displacement makes child refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant children less resistant to medical problems. On February 6, 2023, the southeast and the southcentral regions of Türkiye were struck ...

    Authors: Mehmet Cenk Belibağlı, Mehmet Yiğit Gökmen and Ahmet Pamiry
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:111
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  23. Authors: Duncan Gray, Mathieu Pasquier, Hermann Brugger, Martin Musi and Peter Paal
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:110
    Content type: Matters Arising Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2025 33:2

    The original article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2022 30:13

  24. Prehospital point-of-care ultrasound allows an unstable patient to be rapidly and accurately assessed. However, we are concerned that an excessive focus on the ultrasound device, in an already demanding emerge...

    Authors: Yael van der Geest, Luca Marengo, Roland Albrecht, Philipp K. Buehler, Pedro D. Wendel-Garcia, Daniel A. Hofmaenner and Urs Pietsch
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:109
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  25. The global strain on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is reflected in the increasing number of emergency ambulance dispatches. Shorter EMS response times have demonstrated some effect on very specific and rare...

    Authors: Josefine Tangen Jensen, Thea Palsgaard Møller, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Annette Kjær Ersbøll and Helle Collatz Christensen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:108
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  27. Pre-hospital incidents involving pediatric and neonatal patients are infrequent, and clinical characteristics and care for these patients differ from the adult population. Lack of knowledge, guidelines, and ex...

    Authors: Martine Myhre, Lars Eide Næss, Eirik Skogvoll and Helge Haugland
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:106
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  28. Odontoid fractures from high-energy trauma are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, including spinal cord injury, neurological damage, and cardiac arrest. The literature on odontoid fractures l...

    Authors: S. F. Schaible, S. Häckel, N. Rutsch, F. C. Aregger, S. F. Bigdon, V. Schoenborn, I. Broger, C. E. Albers and C. Tinner
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:105
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  29. The Advanced Trauma Life Support classification (ATLS) of hypovolemic shock is a widely used teaching and treatment reference in emergency medicine, but oversimplifies clinical reality. A decade ago, a landmar...

    Authors: M. L. A. Heldeweg, T. T. R. Heldeweg, J. A. H. Stohlmann, P. Freire Jorge, R. Boer, L. A. Schwarte and P. Schober
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:104
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  31. Calling for help is the first link in the chain of survival; however, few studies have investigated the challenges faced by frequent callers (FCs) to emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs). This study...

    Authors: Sara Naess Viken, Lars Myrmel and Guttorm Brattebø
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:102
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  32. Individuals who provide critical emergency care mount rapid psychobiological responses when faced with an incident. These responses are adaptive and ensure resources at time of demand; however, frequent activa...

    Authors: Mark A. Wetherell, Glenn Williams and Jeff Doran
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:101
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  33. The ageing of the population is leading to an increase in the number of traumatic injuries and represents a major challenge for the future. Falls represent the leading cause of Emergency department admission i...

    Authors: Clément Poncet, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Vincent Darioli, Tobias Zingg and Francois-Xavier Ageron
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:100
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    The Matters Arising to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:107

  34. We aimed to achieve consensus among NHS and community stakeholders to identify and prioritise innovations in Community First Responder (CFR) schemes.

    Authors: Gupteswar Patel, Vanessa Botan, Viet-Hai Phung, Ian Trueman, Mehrshad Parvin Hosseini, Murray D. Smith, Roderick Ørner, Julie Pattinson, Zahid Asghar, Elise Rowan, Robert Spaight, Craig Mortimer, Amanda Brewster, Pauline Mountain, Joshua Miller, Martina Brown…
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:99
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  35. Drowning remains a common cause of death among children. However, the epidemiology and impact of drowning in Thailand was underexplored. This study aimed to analyze the epidemiology and clinical outcomes of pe...

    Authors: Sirapoom Niamsanit, Rattapon Uppala, Phanthila Sitthikarnkha, Leelawadee Techasatian, Suchaorn Saengnipanthkul, Kaewjai Thepsuthammarat and Sumitr Sutra
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:98
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  36. The contemporary management of mass casualty incidents (MCIs) relies on the effective application of predetermined, dedicated response plans based on current best evidence. Currently, there is limited evidence...

    Authors: Luca Carenzo, Lorenzo Gamberini, Federico Crimaldi, Davide Colombo, Pier Luigi Ingrassia, Luca Ragazzoni, Francesco Della Corte and Marta Caviglia
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:97
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    The Matters Arising to this article has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:103

  37. Haemorrhage is a leading cause of preventable mortality in high-income countries and emergency management presents unique challenges in the prehospital setting. The study aimed to determine incidence and chara...

    Authors: Oliver von Olnhausen, Andreas Wladis and Denise Bäckström
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:96
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  38. Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are established as tools for answering medical questions worldwide. Healthcare trainees are increasingly using this cutting-edge technology, although its reliability and a...

    Authors: Stefanie Beck, Manuel Kuhner, Markus Haar, Anne Daubmann, Martin Semmann and Stefan Kluge
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:95
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  39. Misdiagnosis of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAA) contributes to delayed treatment and potentially higher mortality. The symptomatology in patients with rAAA is complex and challenging, 25–50% presuma...

    Authors: Peter Bergmark, Mitra Sadeghi, Mareia Talvitie and Rebecka Hultgren
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:94
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  40. Mass Casualty Incidents are rare but can significantly stress healthcare systems. Functional Resonance Analytical Methodology (FRAM) is a systematic approach to model and explore how complex systems adapt to v...

    Authors: R. J. MacKinnon, D. Slater, R. Jenner, T. Stenfors, C. Kennedy and K. P. Härenstam
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:93
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  41. During the COVID-19 pandemic, disturbing images of ambulances unable to respond to the demands for prehospital assistance appeared from several parts of the world. In Denmark, however, a notion occurred that t...

    Authors: Tim Alex Lindskou, Søren Bie Bogh, Torben Anders Kløjgaard, Marianne Fløjstrup, Fredrik Folke, Ulla Væggemose, Helle Collatz Christensen, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, Mikkel Brabrand and Søren Mikkelsen
    Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:92
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  42. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. 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
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  44. 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
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  45. 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
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  46. 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
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  47. 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
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  48. 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
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  49. 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
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