Issue 1/2013
Content (91 Articles)
Improving adjustments for older age in pre-hospital assessment and care
Marius Rehn
Treatment of penetrating trauma of the extremities: ten years’ experience at a dutch level 1 trauma center
Oscar JF Van Waes, Esther MM Van Lieshout, Wouter Hogendoorn, Jens A Halm, Jefrey Vermeulen
Prehospital digital photography and automated image transmission in an emergency medical service – an ancillary retrospective analysis of a prospective controlled trial
Sebastian Bergrath, Rolf Rossaint, Niklas Lenssen, Christina Fitzner, Max Skorning
Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Richard M Lyon, Magnus J Nelson
The Study Protocol for the LINC (LUCAS in Cardiac Arrest) Study: a study comparing conventional adult out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation with a concept with mechanical chest compressions and simultaneous defibrillation
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, Fredrik Arnwald, Bjarne Madsen Hardig, Douglas Chamberlain, Johan Herlitz, Rolf Karlsten
Evaluation of airway management associated hands-off time during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a randomised manikin follow-up study
Christina Gruber, Sabine Nabecker, Philipp Wohlfarth, Anita Ruetzler, Dominik Roth, Oliver Kimberger, Henrik Fischer, Michael Frass, Kurt Ruetzler
A retrospective analysis of geriatric trauma patients: venous lactate is a better predictor of mortality than traditional vital signs
Kristin M Salottolo, Charles W Mains, Patrick J Offner, Pamela W Bourg, David Bar-Or
Adherence to guidelines and protocols in the prehospital and emergency care setting: a systematic review
Remco HA Ebben, Lilian CM Vloet, Michael HJ Verhofstad, Sanne Meijer, Joke AJ Mintjes-de Groot, Theo van Achterberg
Improvement in self-reported confidence in nurses’ professional skills in the emergency department
Veli-Pekka Rautava, Erika Palomäki, Tapio Innamaa, Mika Perttu, Päivi Lehto, Ari Palomäki
Reviewer acknowledgement 2012
Hans Morten Lossius, Kjetil Søreide
Publication of clinical trial protocols – what can we learn?
Eirik Skogvoll, Jo Kramer-Johansen
Fatal injury as a function of rurality-a tale of two Norwegian counties
Håkon Kvåle Bakke, Ingrid Schrøder Hansen, Anette Bakkane Bendixen, Inge Morild, Peer K Lilleng, Torben Wisborg
Drug - related emergency department visits by elderly patients presenting with non-specific complaints
Christian H Nickel, Juliane M Ruedinger, Anna S Messmer, Silke Maile, Arno Peng, Michael Bodmer, Reto W Kressig, Stephan Kraehenbuehl, Roland Bingisser
The intrapleural volume threshold for ultrasound detection of pneumothoraces: An experimental study on porcine models
Nils Petter Oveland, Eldar Søreide, Hans Morten Lossius, Frode Johannessen, Kristian Borup Wemmelund, Rasmus Aagaard, Erik Sloth
Usage of documented pre-hospital observations in secondary care: a questionnaire study and retrospective comparison of records
Geir O Knutsen, Knut Fredriksen
Predictors of cardiopulmonary arrest outcome in a comprehensive cancer center intensive care unit
Faisal A Khasawneh, Mahmoud T Kamel, Mohammad I Abu-Zaid
Road traffic accidents in Kathmandu—an hour of education yields a glimmer of hope
Bibhusan Basnet, Rais Vohra, Amit Bhandari, Subash Pandey
ACS network-based implementation of therapeutic hypothermia for the treatment of comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors improves clinical outcomes: the first European experience
Marek Kozinski, Krzysztof Pstragowski, Julia Maria Kubica, Tomasz Fabiszak, Michal Kasprzak, Blazej Kuffel, Przemyslaw Paciorek, Eliano Pio Navarese, Grzegorz Grzesk, Jacek Kubica
Hospital out-lying through lack of beds and its impact on care and patient outcome
Andrew Stowell, Pierre-Geraud Claret, Mustapha Sebbane, Xavier Bobbia, Charlotte Boyard, Romain Genre Grandpierre, Alexandre Moreau, Jean-Emmanuel de La Coussaye
Effects of red blood cell transfusion on hemodynamic parameters: a prospective study in intensive care unit patients
Bernd Saugel, Michaela Klein, Alexander Hapfelmeier, Veit Phillip, Caroline Schultheiss, Agnes S Meidert, Marlena Messer, Roland M Schmid, Wolfgang Huber
Free oscillation rheometry monitoring of haemodilution and hypothermia and correction with fibrinogen and factor XIII concentrates
Dag Winstedt, Nahreen Tynngård, Knut Olanders, Ulf Schött
Scoring systems for outcome prediction in patients with perforated peptic ulcer
Kenneth Thorsen, Jon Arne Søreide, Kjetil Søreide
Hoping for a domino effect: a new specialty in Sweden is a breath of fresh air for the development of Scandinavian emergency medicine
Peter Hallas, Ulf Ekelund, Lars Petter Bjørnsen, Mikkel Brabrand
The prognostic value of gray-white-matter ratio in cardiac arrest patients treated with hypothermia
Michael Scheel, Christian Storm, Andre Gentsch, Jens Nee, Fridolin Luckenbach, Christoph J Ploner, Christoph Leithner
Blood alcohol concentration and self-reported alcohol ingestion in acute poisoned patients who visited an emergency department
Seon Hee Woo, Woon Jeong Lee, Won Jung Jeong, Yeon Young Kyong, Se Min Choi
Digital video recording in trauma surgery using commercially available equipment
Shokei Matsumoto, Kazuhiko Sekine, Motoyasu Yamazaki, Tomohiro Funabiki, Tomohiko Orita, Masayuki Shimizu, Mitsuhide Kitano
Acute neuro-endocrine profile and prediction of outcome after severe brain injury
Zandra Olivecrona, Per Dahlqvist, Lars-Owe D Koskinen
Predictors of pulmonary failure following severe trauma: a trauma registry-based analysis
Emanuel V Geiger, Thomas Lustenberger, Sebastian Wutzler, Rolf Lefering, Mark Lehnert, Felix Walcher, Helmut L Laurer, Ingo Marzi
Thrombelastography (TEG®): practical considerations on its clinical use in trauma resuscitation
Luis Teodoro da Luz, Bartolomeu Nascimento, Sandro Rizoli
Resuscitation training in small-group setting – gender matters
Saša Sopka, Henning Biermann, Rolf Rossaint, Steffen Rex, Michael Jäger, Max Skorning, Nicole Heussen, Stefan K Beckers
Triage systems for pre-hospital emergency medical services - a systematic review
Ingeborg Beate Lidal, Hilde H Holte, Gunn Elisabeth Vist
Push hard, push fast, if you’re downtown: a citation review of urban-centrism in American and European basic life support guidelines
Aaron M Orkin
Prevalence and factors correlating with hyperoxia exposure following cardiac arrest – an observational single centre study
Annika Nelskylä, Michael J Parr, Markus B Skrifvars
Inhalation injury: epidemiology, pathology, treatment strategies
David J Dries, Frederick W Endorf
Prehospital analgesia using nasal administration of S-ketamine – a case series
Joakim Johansson, Jonas Sjöberg, Marie Nordgren, Erik Sandström, Folke Sjöberg, Henrik Zetterström
Time delays and capability of elderly to activate speaker function for continuous telephone CPR
Tonje S Birkenes, Helge Myklebust, Jo Kramer-Johansen
Head Computed Tomographic measurement as an early predictor of outcome in hypoxic-ischemic brain damage patients treated with hypothermia therapy
Hitoshi Yamamura, Shinichiro Kaga, Kazuhisa Kaneda, Tomonori Yamamoto, Yasumitsu Mizobata
Can mass education and a television campaign change the attitudes towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a rural community?
Anne Møller Nielsen, Dan Lou Isbye, Freddy Knudsen Lippert, Lars Simon Rasmussen
Impact of multiple injuries on functional and neurological outcomes of patients with spinal cord injury
Giorgio Scivoletto, Sara Farchi, Letizia Laurenza, Federica Tamburella, Marco Molinari
Push hard, push fast: quasi-experimental study on the capacity of elementary schoolchildren to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Simon Berthelot, Miville Plourde, Isabelle Bertrand, Amélie Bourassa, Marie-Maud Couture, Élyse Berger-Pelletier, Maude St-Onge, Renaud Leroux, Natalie Le Sage, Stéphanie Camden
A structured approach to neurologic prognostication in clinical cardiac arrest trials
Tobias Cronberg, Janneke Horn, Michael A Kuiper, Hans Friberg, Niklas Nielsen
Patients’ experiences of cold exposure during ambulance care
Jonas Aléx, Stig Karlsson, Britt-Inger Saveman
Critically ill patients in emergency department may be characterized by low amplitude and high variability of amplitude of pulse photoplethysmography
Jussi Pirneskoski, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Petri Jeskanen, Lari Linnamurto, Simo Saikko, Jouni Nurmi
New pre-arrival instructions can avoid abdominal hand placement for chest compressions
Tonje S Birkenes, Helge Myklebust, Jo Kramer-Johansen
Real-time audiovisual feedback system in a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service in Finland: the quality results and barriers to implementation
Marko Sainio, Antti Kämäräinen, Heini Huhtala, Petri Aaltonen, Jyrki Tenhunen, Klaus T Olkkola, Sanna Hoppu
A randomized trial of video self-instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for lay persons
Rachel Godfred, Ella Huszti, Deborah Fly, Graham Nichol
Emergency cricothyrotomy – a systematic review
Sofie Langvad, Per Kristian Hyldmo, Anders Rostrup Nakstad, Gunn Elisabeth Vist, Marten Sandberg
Exclusion of context knowledge in the development of prehospital guidelines: results produced by realistic evaluation
Magnus Andersson Hagiwara, Bjorn-Ove Suserud, Anders Jonsson, Maria Henricson
Needle, knife, or device – which choice in an airway crisis?
Kate Crewdson, David J Lockey
S100B levels are affected by older age but not by alcohol intoxication following mild traumatic brain injury
Olga Calcagnile, Anders Holmén, Michelle Chew, Johan Undén
Implementing a nationwide criteria-based emergency medical dispatch system: A register-based follow-up study
Mikkel S Andersen, Søren Paaske Johnsen, Jan Nørtved Sørensen, Søren Bruun Jepsen, Jesper Bjerring Hansen, Erika Frischknecht Christensen
Implementation phase of a multicentre prehospital telemedicine system to support paramedics: feasibility and possible limitations
Sebastian Bergrath, Michael Czaplik, Rolf Rossaint, Frederik Hirsch, Stefan Kurt Beckers, Bernd Valentin, Daniel Wielpütz, Marie-Thérèse Schneiders, Jörg Christian Brokmann
Association of arterial blood pressure and CPR quality in a child using three different compression techniques, a case report
Marko Sainio, Robert M Sutton, Heini Huhtala, Joar Eilevstjønn, Jyrki Tenhunen, Klaus T Olkkola, Vinay M Nadkarni, Sanna Hoppu
Changes in fibrinogen availability and utilization in an animal model of traumatic coagulopathy
Jostein S Hagemo, Jørgen J Jørgensen, Sisse R Ostrowski, Anders Holtan, Yngvar Gundersen, Pär I Johansson, Pål A Næss, Christine Gaarder
Early brain computed tomography findings are associated with outcome in patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Soo Hyun Kim, Seung Pill Choi, Kyu Nam Park, Chun Song Youn, Sang Hoon Oh, Se Min Choi
Comparison of a percutaneous device and the bougie-assisted surgical technique for emergency cricothyrotomy: an experimental study on a porcine model performed by air ambulance anaesthesiologists
Anders R Nakstad, Per P Bredmose, Mårten Sandberg
Pre-hospital advanced airway management by experienced anaesthesiologists: a prospective descriptive study
Leif Rognås, Troels Martin Hansen, Hans Kirkegaard, Else Tønnesen
Evaluation of emergency department performance – a systematic review on recommended performance and quality-in-care measures
Christian Michel Sørup, Peter Jacobsen, Jakob Lundager Forberg
Effect of continuous compression and 30:2 cardiopulmonary resuscitation on cerebral microcirculation in a porcine model of cardiac arrest
Lin Yang, Shuo Wang, Chun-Sheng Li
Equipment to prevent, diagnose, and treat hypothermia: a survey of Norwegian pre-hospital services
Anders M Karlsen, Øyvind Thomassen, Bjarne H Vikenes, Guttorm Brattebø
Hydroxyethyl starch - the importance of being earnest
Daniel Chappell, Matthias Jacob
Management of traumatic hemipelvectomy: an institutional experience on four consecutive cases
Tian-hao Wu, Xi-rui Wu, Xiao Zhang, Chun-sheng Wu, Ying-ze Zhang, A-qin Peng
Debate on HES safety is important, but must be based on facts
Nicolai Haase, Rasmus Müller, Anders Perner
Five-year mortality after acute poisoning treated in ambulances, an Emergency outpatient clinic and hospitals in Oslo
Cathrine Lund, Mari A Bjornaas, Leiv Sandvik, Oivind Ekeberg, Dag Jacobsen, Knut E Hovda
Factors correlating with delayed trauma center admission following traumatic brain injury
Rahul Raj, Jari Siironen, Riku Kivisaari, Markku Kuisma, Tuomas Brinck, Jaakko Lappalainen, Markus B Skrifvars
The study protocol for the Head Injury Retrieval Trial (HIRT): a single centre randomised controlled trial of physician prehospital management of severe blunt head injury compared with management by paramedics
Alan A Garner, Michael Fearnside, Val Gebski
The inaugural European emergency medical dispatch conference – a synopsis of proceedings
Richard M Lyon, Katarina Bohm, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, Theresa M Olasveengen, Maaret Castrén
Essential key indicators for disaster medical response suggested to be included in a national uniform protocol for documentation of major incidents: a Delphi study
Monica Rådestad, Maria Jirwe, Maaret Castrén, Leif Svensson, Dan Gryth, Anders Rüter
Time course of soluble P-selectin and von Willebrand factor levels in trauma patients: a prospective observational study
Ning Tang, Shiyu Yin, Ziyong Sun, Yingying Pan
Flexible fixation of syndesmotic diastasis using the assembled bolt-tightrope system
Guohui Xu, Wei Chen, Qi Zhang, Juan Wang, Yanling Su, Yingze Zhang
Effects of moving emergency trauma laparotomies from the ED to a dedicated OR
Sigrid Groven, Paal Aksel Naess, Nils Oddvar Skaga, Christine Gaarder
Clinical features and management of closed injury of the cervical trachea due to blunt trauma
Dong Ye, Zhisen Shen, Yuyuan Zhang, Shijie Qiu, Cheng Kang
Impact of fibrinogen concentrate alone or with prothrombin complex concentrate (+/− fresh frozen plasma) on plasma fibrinogen level and fibrin-based clot strength (FIBTEM) in major trauma: a retrospective study
Christoph J Schlimp, Wolfgang Voelckel, Kenji Inaba, Marc Maegele, Herbert Schöchl
Refraining from pre-hospital advanced airway management: a prospective observational study of critical decision making in an anaesthesiologist-staffed pre-hospital critical care service
Leif Rognås, Troels Martin Hansen, Hans Kirkegaard, Else Tønnesen
Effects of multidisciplinary teamwork on lead times and patient flow in the emergency department: a longitudinal interventional cohort study
Åsa Muntlin Athlin, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Nasim Farrohknia
Superimposed traumatic brain injury modulates vasomotor responses in third-order vessels after hemorrhagic shock
Bo Chen, Manuel Mutschler, Yongjun Yuan, Edmund Neugebauer, Qiaobing Huang, Marc Maegele
Confusion with cerebral perfusion pressure in a literature review of current guidelines and survey of clinical practise
Vidar Rao, Pål Klepstad, Ole Kristian Losvik, Ole Solheim
A comparison of conventional tube and EndoFlex tube for tracheal intubation in patients with a cervical spine immobilisation
Ewelina Gaszynska, Michal Stankiewicz-Rudnicki, Andrzej Wieczorek, Tomasz Gaszynski
Developing templates for uniform data documentation and reporting in critical care using a modified nominal group technique
Hans Morten Lossius, Andreas J Krüger, Kjetil Gorseth Ringdal, Stephen JM Sollid, David J Lockey
Comparison between laparotomy first versus angiographic embolization first in patients with pelvic fracture and hemoperitoneum: a nationwide observational study from the Japan Trauma Data Bank
Morihiro Katsura, Shin Yamazaki, Shingo Fukuma, Kazuhide Matsushima, Toshimitsu Yamashiro, Shunichi Fukuhara
Prospective observational study on tracheal tube cuff pressures in emergency patients– is neglecting the problem the problem?
Falko Harm, Mathias Zuercher, Marco Bassi, Wolfgang Ummenhofer
The measurement of tissue interface pressures and changes in jugular venous parameters associated with cervical immobilisation devices: a systematic review
Alison Sparke, Sarah Voss, Jonathan Benger
Standard operating procedure changed pre-hospital critical care anaesthesiologists’ behaviour: a quality control study
Leif Rognås, Troels Martin Hansen, Hans Kirkegaard, Else Tønnesen
Comparisons of normal saline and lactated Ringer’s resuscitation on hemodynamics, metabolic responses, and coagulation in pigs after severe hemorrhagic shock
Wenjun Z Martini, Douglas S Cortez, Michael A Dubick
Assessment of cardiac pathology by point-of-care ultrasonography performed by a novice examiner is comparable to the gold standard
Christian Alcaraz Frederiksen, Peter Juhl-Olsen, Niels Holmark Andersen, Erik Sloth
Pulmonary infiltrates during community acquired Gram-negative bacteremia: a retrospective single centre study
Hans Fjeldsøe-Nielsen, Kirsten Gjeraa, Birgitte G Berthelsen, Ram B Dessau
Changes of triage by GPs during the course of prehospital emergency situations in a Norwegian rural community
Sverre Rørtveit, Eivind Meland, Steinar Hunskaar
Twisting and ignoring facts on hydroxyethyl starch is not very helpful
Daniel Chappell, Matthias Jacob
Pre-hospital and admission parameters predict in-hospital mortality among patients 60 years and older following severe trauma
Miklosh Bala, Dafna Willner, Dima Klauzni, Tali Bdolah-Abram, Avraham I Rivkind, Mahmoud Abu Gazala, Ram Elazary, Gidon Almogy
Triage performance of Swedish physicians using the ATLS algorithm in a simulated mass casualty incident: a prospective cross-sectional survey
Maria Lampi, Tore Vikström, Carl-Oscar Jonson