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Background The Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) is part of the Danish Emergency Medical Services System serving 5.7 million citizens with 1% living on islands not connected to the mainland by road. HEMS is dispatched based on pre-defined criteria including severity and urgency, and moreover to islands for less urgent cases, when rapid transport to further care is needed. The…
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Background Healthcare workers have reported increased anxiety while working in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of healthcare students in a health crisis has been discussed among clinicians and researchers. The simultaneous international shortage of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the first wave of the pandemic potentially exposed healthcare workers and students to…
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Stéphanie Kalwant3, Yara Amro1, Benjamin Gicquel3, Idriss Arnaudet3, Dominique Savary1,2,3,4,5, Quentin Le Bastard3,4 & François Javaudin3,4 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine …
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Background In the pre-hospital setting, non-urgent patients with non-specific chief complaints pose assessment challenges for the emergency medical systems (EMS). Severely ill patients should be identified among these patients, and unnecessary transport to the emergency department (ED) should be avoided. Unnecessary admissions burden EDs, deplete EMS resources and can even be harmful to patients,…
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Background The helicopter emergency services (HEMS) Benefit Score (HBS) is a nine-level scoring system developed to evaluate the benefits of HEMS missions. The HBS has been in clinical use for two decades in its original form. Advances in prehospital care, however, have produced demand for a revision of the HBS. Therefore, we developed the emergency medical services (EMS) Benefit Score (EBS)…
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Sarita Egholm1, Laurits Elgaard1, Niklas Breindahl1, Alice Herrlin Jensen1, Vagn Eskesen2,7, Freddy Lippert3,7, Frans Boch Waldorf4,5, Nicolai Lohse6,7 & Lars Simon Rasmussen1,7 …
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Background Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) performed at the emergency scene in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) can minimize low-flow time. Target temperature management (TTM) after cardiac arrest can improve neurological outcome. A combination of ECPR and TTM, both implemented as soon as possible on scene, appears to have promising results in OHCA. To date, it is still…
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Introduction Sodium acetate has been shown to cause hemodynamic instability when used as a hemodialysis buffer. The pattern of hemodynamic response to injury will be evaluated between those who received sodium acetate and those who did not. The primary purpose of the study is to analyze the effect of sodium acetate on hemodynamic parameters. Secondarily we looked at the effects on prevention and…
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Mashup Score: 0Tracheal intubation with video laryngoscopy in out-of-hospital sitting - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine - 3 year(s) ago
To the Editor With great interest we read the article written by Knapp et al. [1] recently published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. They showed that use of C-MAC video laryngoscope by operators with mixed experience provided a high…
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Background There is little evidence of which sepsis screening tool to use in the ambulance setting. The primary aim of the current study was to compare the performance of NEWS2 (National Early Warning score 2) and RETTS (Rapid Emergency Triage and Treatment System) with respect to identification of sepsis among ambulance patients with clinically suspected infection. The secondary aim was to…
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Helicopter emergency medical services missions to islands and the mainland during a 3-year period in Denmark: a population-based study on patient and sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidity, and use of healthcare services https://t.co/CyI2dtoOr3