Background An emergency cricothyrotomy is the last-resort in most airway management protocols and is performed when it is not possible to intubate or ventilate a patient. This situation can rapidly prove fatal, making it ...

Opioidtreatment for acute pain. Risk of addiction? Aim: To asses the risk of addiction after treatment of acute pain with opioid analgesics in hospital care. Methods: PubMed were searched from January 2011 to September ...

Ved behov for akutt helsehjelp kontaktes 113-sentralen (AMK) som sender ut og koordinerer ambulansene. AMK mottar enorme mengder henvendelser og må derfor prioritere hvilke oppdrag som krever ambulanse. Noen ganger viser ...

Background: Endotracheal intubation (ETI) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intact airway reflexes remains controversial. Increased on-scene duration to secure the airway may be a time cost that the patient ...

INTRODUCTION: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the standard treatment of decompression sickness and the main opinion is that the condition responds better to early treatment than delayed treatment. There is no randomized ...

Abstract Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is currently recommended by international guidelines in comatose patients primary resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Todays’ recommendation is that TH is initiated ...

Patients with sepsis make up 1% of the hospital admissions and accounts for almost 1000 deaths yearly in Norway. Worldwide it is estimated that 1400 people die every day from sepsis. Severe sepsis has a mortality rate of ...

Background and objective Every year, between 100 and 250 people die in snow avalanches in Europe and North America. Rescue missions are dangerous and difficult, and resuscitation of avalanche victims often proves to be ...

The aim of this literature review is to sum up what is available knowledge about the effect of a medical emergency team (MET) system on three types of adverse events in general wards in hospitals; cardiac arrest, unexpected ...

Bakgrunn: Innføring av traumesysten har vist seg å bedre kvaliteten av traumebehandling. Traumeorganiseringen i Norge er et område under utvikling og har til nå ikke vært veiledet av offisielle retningslinjer. Formål: ...

In breath-hold diving as in ordinary scuba diving, there are reported incidents of serious neurological symptoms, mimicking cerebral insults. The etiology for the symptoms in breath-hold diving is uncertain. It has been ...

Hypovolemic shock is characterized by an acute failure of the cardiovascular system to perfuse the body tissues adequately. If the patient is not resuscitated appropriately, it can lead to organ failure and death. It is ...

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is one of the leading causes of death in the western world, affecting about 700 000 people in Europe every year. Multiple causes can underlie SCA, though ischemic heart disease is the most common. ...

SAMMENDRAG OG ANBEFALINGER: Ambulansetjenesten i Oslo og Akershus oppfyller dokumentasjonsplikten ved at papirjournal fylles ut ved hvert oppdrag. Originalen leveres til mottakende enhet og kopi arkiveres. Fra tidligere ...

TITLE: Tight blood glucose control in pediatric intensive care patients – a literature study and an investigation of the blood glucose levels at the pediatric intensive care unit at Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospital ...

Background During cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), advanced life support (ALS) providers have been shown to deliver inadequate CPR with long intervals without chest compressions. Several changes made to the 2005 CPR ...

Background: Cardiac arrest patients with initial non-shockable rhythm progressing to shockable rhythm have been reported to have inferior outcome to those remaining non-shockable.Wewanted to confirm this observation in our ...

Introduction: The semi-automatic external defibrillator (AED) demands interruptions in chest compression for rhythm analysis, charging and shock delivery in the management of cardiac arrested victims. The introduction of ...

Background: Trauma is the leading cause of death for young people in Norway. Several of these deaths are preventable if the patient receives the correct initial treatment. The trauma team is responsible for initial treatment ...

Awareness during anaesthesia is still an occuring problem although medical science has achieved immense progress in the recent decades. The experience of postoperative awareness can have great impact on the patients life, ...

Stroke is a major cause of death and disability in our country and elsewhere in the world. It is estimated that 14.-15.000 people suffer from stroke each year in Norway, and the total direct and indirect society costs ...

Background: In our recent study professional rescuers only delivered chest compressions 39% of the available time before intubation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.1 We have investigated if this could be explained ...

ABSRACT Title Does use of glucocorticoids have a beneficial effect in treatment of the late/fibroproliferative phase of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)? Background ARDS is a condition presenting with tachypnea, ...

Rhabdomyolysis, the disintegration of striated muscle, results in the leakage of muscle constituents into the extracellular space, with subsequent reabsorption into the circulation. It ranges from asymptomatic illness to ...

Abstract: Background: A study published in 2000 found that the trauma team activation (TTA) system at Ulleval University Hospital (UUH), the trauma referral centre for half of the Norwegian population, had an undertriage ...

Background. It is known that anaesthesia to children could be challenging. The aim of this article/paper was to focus on the differences between an acute and an elective operation in children from an anaesthesilogical ...

We have followed up patients suffering from out of hospital cardiac arrest, both of cardiac and non-cardiac aetiology, who have been attending a specific project in Oslo. Period May 2003 June 2005. The information has ...

Objective: To establish whether cannabis is an effective and safe analgesic in chronic painful conditions. Background: The medical applications of Cannabis have long been a focus of public and scientific interest. ...

Retrospective Analysis of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Performed by Ambulance Personnel in Oslo using Transthoracic Impedance Data. Objective:Analyse CPR performed on patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with the ...

Background: Lung injury in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by increased permeability of the alveolar-capillary membrane, diffuse alveolar damage, and the accumulation of proteinacenous pulmonary ...

Background: In a study from Norway from 2003, the survival rate after admission to ICU following successful resuscitation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) was 56% in Stavanger and only 34% in Oslo. Therefore, a ...

Abstract In order to resuscitate a patient suffering from cardiac arrest, it is crucial to obtain early defibrillation. Wanting to increase the survival-rate from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest, one obviously has ...

Skin conductance as a measure of discomfort in artificial ventilated children Skin Conductance (SC) as a measure of arousal may be a tool for monitoring discomfort in artificial ventilated children. When an outgoing ...

Aims: To describe the epidemiology and factors predicting the prognosis regarding resuscitation of patients with out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) and asystole/ pulseless electrical activity (PEA) as the fist rhythm ...

The Emergency Medical Service (EMS) in Oslo has insufficient routines for surveillance of the medical activity, beyond the number of ambulance missions and response times. Norwegian authorities lack regular registration ...