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Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:80
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Saving lives with statistics
Healthcare is awash with numbers, and figuring out what knowledge these numbers might hold is worthwhile in order to improve patient care. Numbers allow for objective mathematical analysis of the information a...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:79 -
Human errors in emergency medical services: a qualitative analysis of contributing factors
The dynamic and challenging work environment of the prehospital emergency care settings creates many challenges for paramedics. Previous studies have examined adverse events and patient safety activities, but ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:78 -
Non-invasive versus arterial pressure monitoring in the pre-hospital critical care environment: a paired comparison of concurrently recorded measurements
Blood pressure monitoring is important in the pre-hospital management of critically ill patients. Non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) measurements are commonly used but the accuracy of standard oscillometric cu...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:77 -
Prehospital guidelines on in-water traumatic spinal injuries for lifeguards and prehospital emergency medical services: an international Delphi consensus study
Trauma guidelines on spinal motion restriction (SMR) have changed drastically in recent years. An international group of experts explored whether consensus could be reached and if guidelines on SMR performed b...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:76 -
Hyperoxaemia in acute trauma is common and associated with a longer hospital stay: a multicentre retrospective cohort study
Trauma poses a significant global health challenge. Despite advancements in the management of severely injured patients, (poly)trauma continues to be a primary contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide....
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:75 -
Dispatcher nurses’ experiences of handling drones equipped with automated external defibrillators in suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - a qualitative study
Reducing the time to treatment by means of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation is essential to increasing survival after cardiac arrest. A novel method of dispatching drones for delivery of ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:74 -
Equity in the provision of helicopter emergency medical services in the United Kingdom: a geospatial analysis using indices of multiple deprivation
Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in the United Kingdom (UK) are provided in a mixed funding model, with the majority of services funded by charities alongside a small number of government-funded op...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:73 -
Added predictive value of prehospital measurement of point-of-care lactate in an adult general EMS population in Sweden: a multi-centre observational study
Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel must rapidly assess and transport patients with time-sensitive conditions to optimise patient outcomes. Serum lactate, a valuable in-hospital biomarker, has become mo...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:72 -
Trauma induced coagulopathy is limited to only one out of four shock induced endotheliopathy (SHINE) phenotypes among moderate-severely injured trauma patients: an exploratory analysis
Trauma induced coagulopathy remains to be an important cause of high transfusion requirements and mortality and shock induced endotheliopathy (SHINE) has been implicated.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:71 -
Prehospital treatment of severely burned patients: a retrospective analysis of patients admitted to the Berlin burn centre
Prehospital management of severely burned patients is extremely challenging. It should include adequate analgesia, decision-making on the necessity of prehospital endotracheal intubation and the administration...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:70 -
Building a performance measurement framework for telephone triage services in Finland: a consensus-making study based on nominal group technique
There has been a significant expansion in the measurement of healthcare system performance. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive performance measurement framework to assess the effects of telephone tria...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:69 -
Health care utilization of patients with acute abdominal pain before and after emergency department visits
Acute abdominal pain (AAP) is a major driver for capacity-use in emergency departments (EDs) worldwide. Yet, the health care utilization of patients with AAP before and after the ED remains unclear. The primar...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:68 -
Can clinicians identify community-acquired pneumonia on ultralow-dose CT? A diagnostic accuracy study
Without increasing radiation exposure, ultralow-dose computed tomography (CT) of the chest provides improved diagnostic accuracy of radiological pneumonia diagnosis compared to a chest radiograph. Yet, radiolo...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:67 -
The creation, implementation, and harmonisation of medical standard operating procedures and checklists of Finnish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service units
The purpose of this study was to investigate the creation, implementation, and harmonisation of medical Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in Finnish Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS). The research...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:66 -
Effect of oxygen supplementation on cognitive performance among HEMS providers after acute exposure to altitude: the HEMS II randomized clinical trial
Emergency medical services (EMS) providers transiently ascend to high altitude for primary missions and secondary transports in mountainous areas in helicopters that are unpressurised and do not have facilitie...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:65 -
Service provision for Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED): a survey of operational characteristics
The observational Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED) study found 40% of older people attending for care to be living with frailty. Older people with frailty have poorer outcomes from emergency ca...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:64 -
The hidden value of MRI: modifying treatment decisions in C-spine injuries
Computed Tomography (CT) is the gold standard for cervical spine (c-spine) evaluation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) emerges due to its increasing availability and the lack of radiation exposure. However, M...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:63 -
Parallel activation of helicopter and ground transportation after dispatcher identification of suspected anterior large vessel occlusion stroke in rural areas: a proof-of-concept case with modeling from the LESTOR trial
When stroke patients with suspected anterior large vessel occlusion (aLVO) happen to live in rural areas, two main options exist for prehospital transport: (i) the drip-and-ship (DnS) strategy, which ensures r...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:62 -
A critically prolonged avalanche burial with recorded cardiac electrical activity and complete recovery - a case report
The probability of survival in avalanche accidents is time-dependent. Critically buried victims who undergo a long burial duration (over 60 min) face a possible mortality rate of over 80%. Understanding the ph...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:61 -
A scenario based approach to optimizing cost-effectiveness of physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services compared to ground-based Emergency Medical Services in Finland
Since Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) is an expensive resource in terms of unit price compared to ground-based Emergency Medical Service (EMS), it is important to further investigate which methods...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:60 -
Flow dynamics
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:59 -
Patients suffering traumatic brain injury: patient characteristics, prehospital triage, primary referral and mortality - A population-based follow-up study
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a potential high-risk condition, but appropriate care pathways, including prehospital triage and primary referral to a specialised neurosurgical centre, can improve neurological...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:58 -
The effect of circle of willis anatomy and scanning practices on outcomes for blunt cerebrovascular injuries
Limited research has explored the effect of Circle of Willis (CoW) anatomy among blunt cerebrovascular injuries (BCVI) on outcomes. It remains unclear if current BCVI screening and scanning practices are suffi...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:57 -
Enhancing prehospital analgesia – advantages and further indications of nalbuphin
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:56 -
112 What’s your emergency? Overview of mental health and sleep disorders among emergency medical dispatchers in a French 112 call center
Emergency medical dispatchers (EMD) experience significant occupational stress. Medical dispatching includes call-taking, triage, dispatch, and providing callers gesture guidance to the victims. Every decision...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:55 -
Invited Letter to editor (respons STRE-D-24–00176)
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:54 -
Prehospital procedural sedation and analgesia agent selection: propofol, etomidate, ketamine
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:53 -
Enhancing prehospital analgesia: addressing methodological concerns and proposing the START-A mnemonic
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:52 -
Pediatric trauma patients in Swedish ambulance services -a retrospective observational study of assessments, interventions, and clinical outcomes
Pediatric trauma patients constitute a significant portion of the trauma population treated by Swedish Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and trauma remains a notable cause of death among Swedish children. Prev...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:51 -
Online training to improve BLS performance with dispatcher assistance? Results of a cluster-randomised controlled simulation trial
The prognosis for patients improves significantly with effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by bystanders. Current research indicates that individuals who receive CPR from trained bystanders...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:50 -
Implementation of a point-of-care ultrasound archiving system and governance framework in a UK physician-paramedic staffed helicopter emergency medical service
There has been a rapid expansion in the use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) by emergency medical services (EMS). However, less than a third of UK EMS utilise imaging archiving for POCUS, and fewer rev...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:49 -
Mortality after paediatric emergency calls for patients with or without pre-existing comorbidity: a nationwide population based cohort study
Life-threatening conditions are infrequent in children. Current literature in paediatric prehospital research is centred around trauma and paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (POHCA). The aims of this s...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:48 -
The accuracy of prehospital triage decisions in English trauma networks – a case-cohort study
Care for injured patients in England is provided by inclusive regional trauma networks. Ambulance services use triage tools to identify patients with major trauma who would benefit from expedited Major Trauma ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:47 -
Attributes of leadership skill development in high-performance pre-hospital medical teams: results of an international multi-service prospective study
Team leadership skills of physicians working in high-performing medical teams are directly related to outcome. It is currently unclear how these skills can best be developed. Therefore, in this multi-national ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:46 -
Health-Related Quality of Life in severely injured patients in Finland: an observational cohort study of 325 patients with 1-year follow-up
Major trauma has a significant effect on Health-Related Quality of Life (HR-QoL). It is unclear, however, which factors most affect HR-QoL. This study aims to evaluate HR-QoL after severe injury in Finland and...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:45 -
Impact of “hypotension on arrival” on required surgical disciplines and usage of damage control protocols in severely injured patients
For trauma patients with subsequent immediate surgery, it is unclear which surgical disciplines are most commonly required for treatment, and whether and to what extend this might depend on or change with “hyp...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:44 -
Aftermath Türkiye’s double earthquake: detailed analysis of fracture characteristics and acute management from a level I trauma center
This research investigated surgical interventions for the treatment of extremity and pelvic fractures and aimed to provide an analysis of management challenges under crisis conditions in a Level I Trauma Cente...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:43 -
The prevalence of clinically relevant delayed intracranial hemorrhage in head trauma patients treated with oral anticoagulants is very low: a retrospective cohort register study
Current guidelines from Scandinavian Neuro Committee mandate a 24-hour observation for head trauma patients on anticoagulants, even with normal initial head CT scans, as a means not to miss delayed intracrania...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:42 -
Effectiveness and safety of prehospital analgesia with nalbuphine and paracetamol versus morphine by paramedics - an observational study
Despite the development of various analgesic concepts, prehospital oligoanalgesia remains very common. The present work examines prehospital analgesia by paramedics using morphine vs. nalbuphine + paracetamol.
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:41 -
Efficacy of endotracheal intubation in helicopter cabin vs. ground: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Pre-hospital endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a sophisticated procedure with a comparatively high failure rate. Especially, ETI in confined spaces may result in higher difficulty, longer times, and a higher fa...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:40 -
Procedural sedation by advanced practice providers in the emergency medical service in the Netherlands: a retrospective study
Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) is a technique of administering sedatives to induce a state that allows the patient to tolerate painful procedures while maintaining cardiorespiratory function, a condit...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:39 -
Development of a trigger tool to identify harmful incidents, no harm incidents, and near misses in prehospital emergency care
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are a unique setting because care for the chief complaint is given across all ages in a complex and high-risk environment that may pose a threat to patient safety. Traditionall...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:38 -
The skåne emergency medicine (SEM) cohort
In the European Union alone, more than 100 million people present to the emergency department (ED) each year, and this has increased steadily year-on-year by 2–3%. Better patient management decisions have the ...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:37 -
A retrospective analysis of mission reports in the national Swedish Police Registry on mountain rescue 2018–2022: here be snowmobiles
Increasing mountain activity and decreasing participant preparedness, as well as climate change, suggest needs to tailor mountain rescue. In Sweden, previous medical research of these services are lacking. The...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:36 -
Effect of a vapor barrier in combination with active external rewarming for cold-stressed patients in a prehospital setting: a randomized, crossover field study
Use of a vapor barrier in the prehospital care of cold-stressed or hypothermic patients aims to reduce evaporative heat loss and accelerate rewarming. The application of a vapor barrier is recommended in vario...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:35 -
Prevalence of airway patency and air pocket in critically buried avalanche victims - a scoping review
Survival of critically buried avalanche victims is directly dependent on the patency of the airway and the victims’ ability to breathe. While guidelines and avalanche research have consistently emphasized on t...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:34 -
Development and internal validation of an algorithm for estimating mortality in patients encountered by physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical services
Severity of illness scoring systems are used in intensive care units to enable the calculation of adjusted outcomes for audit and benchmarking purposes. Similar tools are lacking for pre-hospital emergency med...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:33 -
Acute patients discharged without an established diagnosis: risk of mortality and readmission of nonspecific diagnoses compared to disease-specific diagnoses
Nonspecific discharge diagnoses after acute hospital courses represent patients discharged without an established cause of their complaints. These patients should have a low risk of adverse outcomes as serious...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:32 -
A national multi centre pre-hospital ECPR stepped wedge study; design and rationale of the ON-SCENE study
The likelihood of return of spontaneous circulation with conventional advanced life support is known to have an exponential decline and therefore neurological outcome after 20 min in patients with a cardiac ar...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2024 32:31
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