OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation & Emergency Medicine is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The MeSH heading “Call Center” is due for an update: why we recommend the more precise heading “Emergency Medical Communication Center”	47
Prognostic value of arterial carbon dioxide tension during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients receiving extracorporeal resuscitation	44
The use of strong analgesics for prehospital pain management in children in the region of Southern Denmark: a register-based study	42
Simulating the methodological bias in the ATLS classification of hypovolemic shock: a critical reappraisal of the base deficit renaissance	39
A translational triage research development tool: standardizing prehospital triage decision-making systems in mass casualty incidents	36
Trauma center vs. nearest non-trauma center: direct transport or bypass approach for out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest	34
Airway registries in primarily adult, emergent endotracheal intubation: a scoping review	29
Differential diagnosis and cause-specific treatment during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective descriptive study	28
ST-T segment changes in prehospital emergency physicians in the field: a prospective observational trial	24
The forgotten cohort-lessons learned from prehospital trauma death: a retrospective cohort study	24
Psychoactive substances and previous hospital admissions, triage and length of stay in rural injuries: a prospective observational study	24
The impact of concurrency conflicts on optimal location of air ambulance bases in Norway	23
Impact of the route of adrenaline administration in patients suffering from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest on 30-day survival with good neurological outcome (ETIVIO study)	23
Concrete silo collapse: emergency medical services response to a mass casualty incident	23
Practical psychosocial care for providers of pre-hospital care: a summary of the report ‘valuing staff, valuing patients’	23
Characteristics and motivational factors for joining a lay responder system dispatch to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests	22
Correction: The implication of a translational triage tool in mass casualty incidents: part three: a multinational study, using validated patient cards	22
Pediatric trauma over a decade: demographics, mechanisms of injury, and mortality at a major Danish trauma center—a retrospective cohort study	21
Characteristics of patients who received helicopter emergency medical services in Japan from 2012 to 2019: a retrospective analysis of data from Tochigi Prefecture	20
Removal of the cervical collar from alpine rescue protocols? A biomechanical non-inferiority trial in real-life mountain conditions	20
Outcome of severely injured patients in a unique trauma system with 24/7 double trauma surgeon on-call service	20
Correction to: Use of troponin assay after electrical injuries: a 15-year multicentre retrospective cohort in emergency departments	20
What motivates and demotivates emergency response volunteers? A survey-based factor analysis study	19
Management and outcomes of firearm-related vascular injuries	19
Critical interventions, diagnosis, and mortality in children treated by a physician-manned mobile emergency care unit	19

Firefighters and police search dog handlers’ experiences working closely with paramedics in urban search and rescue incidents: a qualitative focus group study from Oslo	18
Trauma patient transport to hospital using helicopter emergency medical services or road ambulance in Sweden: a comparison of survival and prehospital time intervals	18
Clinicians’ experience of barriers and facilitators to care delivery of an extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation service for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a qualitative survey	18
Mortality rates in Norwegian HEMS—a retrospective analysis from Central Norway	18
Exploring use of coercion in the Norwegian ambulance service – a qualitative study	18
Emergency call utilization over a 10-years period: an observational study in Region Zealand, Denmark, 2013–2022	17
Pre-hospital management of penetrating neck injuries: derivation of an algorithm through a National Modified Delphi	17
Mortality after paediatric emergency calls for patients with or without pre-existing comorbidity: a nationwide population based cohort study	17
Beyond life extension– is it time for ‘Emergency Last Aid’ training?	16
A wrong conclusion	16
Favourable neurological outcome following paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective observational study	16
Predictors of post-intubation hypotension in trauma patients following prehospital emergency anaesthesia: a multi-centre observational study	16
Prothrombin complex concentrate for reversal of oral anticoagulants in patients with oral anticoagulation-related critical bleeding: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials	16
Flow dynamics	15
Impact of delayed mobile medical team dispatch for respiratory distress calls: a propensity score matched study from a French emergency communication center	15
The hidden value of MRI: modifying treatment decisions in C-spine injuries	15
A scenario based approach to optimizing cost-effectiveness of physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services compared to ground-based Emergency Medical Services in Finland	15
Pharmacodynamic properties for inhibition of cAMP- and cGMP elimination by pentoxifylline remain unaltered in vitro during hypothermia	15
Post-mission debriefs in helicopter emergency medicine services– introducing “The compassionate debrief”	15
Differences in characteristics between patients ≥ 65 and < 65 years of age with orthopaedic injuries after severe trauma	15
Diagnostic accuracy of prehospital serum S100B and GFAP in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: a prospective observational multicenter cohort study – “the PreTBI I study”	14
Invited Letter to editor (respons STRE-D-24–00176)	14
Decision-making by medical officer in charge during major incidents: a qualitative study	14
Prevalence and outcomes of hypocalcemia on ED arrival in traumatic patients before blood transfusions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Rescue blankets as multifunctional rescue equipment in alpine and wilderness emergencies: a commentary	14
Performance of NEWS2, RETTS, clinical judgment and the Predict Sepsis screening tools with respect to identification of sepsis among ambulance patients with suspected infection: a prospective cohort s	13
Maximum movement and cumulative movement (travel) to inform our understanding of secondary spinal cord injury and its application to collar use in self-extrication	13
Prehospital procedural sedation and analgesia agent selection: propofol, etomidate, ketamine	13
Identifying traumatic significant haemorrhage is challenging for patient with low and intermediate risk, not when bleeding is obvious	13
Lessons learned from the first 50 COVID-19 critical care transfer missions conducted by a civilian UK Helicopter Emergency Medical Service team	13
Online training to improve BLS performance with dispatcher assistance? Results of a cluster-randomised controlled simulation trial	13
Patients’ perspectives on point-of-care diagnostics and treatment by emergency medical technicians in acute COPD exacerbations: A qualitative study	13
Remote real-time supervision of prehospital point-of-care ultrasound: a feasibility study	12
Pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia in 2025: ten years on from the modification of induction regimes	12
Physician-led interprofessional pre-hospital teams: does the science hold up?	12
The Field’s mass shooting: emergency medical services response	12
Excellent agreement of Norwegian trauma registry data compared to corresponding data in electronic patient records	12
Validation of a modified South African triage scale in a high-resource setting: a retrospective cohort study	12
Civilian vascular trauma, treatment and outcome at a level 1-trauma centre	12
Pain assessment and management of adult patients in the Swedish EMS: a nationwide registry study	12
Ask not liberal or conservative intravenous fluids in septic shock: ask rather why and when	11
Are 5-level triage systems improved by using a symptom based approach?—a Danish cohort study	11
Prolonged critical avalanche burial for nearly 23 h with severe hypothermia and severe frostbite with good recovery: a case report	11
Strategic implementation of transportation networks following the February 6th Kahramanmaraş Earthquake: an observational analysis	11
Deep-learning model for screening sepsis using electrocardiography	11
Imposter or knight in shining armor? Pelvic circumferential compression devices (PCCD) for severe pelvic injuries in patients with multiple trauma: a trauma-registry analysis	11
Prehospital measurement and treatment of ionised hypocalcaemia by UK helicopter emergency medical services in trauma patients: a survey of current practice	11
Outcomes in patients not conveyed by emergency medical services (EMS): a one-year prospective study	11
A head-to-head comparison of S100B and GFAP/UCH-L1 for detection of traumatic intracranial lesions in a Scandinavian trauma cohort	11
Evaluating the accuracy and reliability of AI chatbots in disseminating the content of current resuscitation guidelines: a comparative analysis between the ERC 2021 guidelines and both ChatGPTs 3.5 an	11

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	11
Correction: Transportation model utilized in the first week following the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Turkey - transport health centers	11
Prehospital undertriage of older injured patients in western Switzerland: an observational cross-sectional study	11
Investigating the effects of frailty on six-month outcomes in older trauma patients admitted to UK major trauma centres: a multi-centre follow up study	11
Global, regional, and national assessment of foreign body aspiration (1990–2021): novel insights into incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years	11
Characteristics of a trauma population in an ambulance organisation in Sweden: results from an observational study	10
Impact of “hypotension on arrival” on required surgical disciplines and usage of damage control protocols in severely injured patients	10
Rendezvous between ambulances and prehospital physicians in the Capital Region of Denmark: a descriptive study	10
Characteristics and outcome of traumatic cardiac arrest at a level 1 trauma centre over 10 years in Sweden	10
Temperature should not be ignored when analyzing the factors affecting trauma outcomes	10
European paramedic curriculum—a call for unity in paramedic education on a European level	10
Optimal cardiopulmonary resuscitation duration for favorable neurological outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	10
Prehospital blood gas analyses in acute patients treated by a ground-based physician-manned emergency unit: a cohort study	10
Effect of arterial oxygen partial pressure inflection point on Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for emergency cardiac support	9
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation during hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a comprehensive review and recommendations for practice	9
The definition of major trauma using different revisions of the abbreviated injury scale	9
Risk stratification tools for patients with syncope in emergency medical services and emergency departments: a scoping review	9
Effect of oxygen supplementation on cognitive performance among HEMS providers after acute exposure to altitude: the HEMS II randomized clinical trial	9
Nine golden codes: improving the accuracy of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatch—a retrospective, multi-organisational study in the East of England	9
Transportation model utilized in the first week following the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Turkey - transport health centers	9
Factors influencing on-scene time in a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS): a retrospective observational study	9
Analgesia in pediatric trauma patients in physician-staffed Austrian helicopter rescue: a 12-year registry analysis	9
The effect of restrictive versus liberal selection criteria on survival in ECPR: a retrospective analysis of a multi-regional dataset	9
Correction to: Ambulance deceleration causes increased intra cranial pressure in supine position: a prospective observational proof of principle study	8
Correction: A regional modification to the Revised Swiss System for clinical staging of hypothermia including confusion	8
Defining major trauma: a Delphi study	8
Severe trauma associated cardiac failure	8
Locating helicopter ambulance bases in Iceland: efficient and fair solutions	8
Helicopter emergency medical service for time critical interfacility transfers of patients with cardiovascular emergencies	8
The skåne emergency medicine (SEM) cohort	8
Impact of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation on neurologically intact survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a systematic review	8
Trauma outcomes differences in females: a prospective analysis of 76 000 trauma patients in the Asia-Pacific region and the contributing factors	8
Proarrhythmic changes in human cardiomyocytes during hypothermia by milrinone and isoprenaline, but not levosimendan: an experimental in vitro study	8
A classification system for identifying patients dead on ambulance arrival: a prehospital medical record review	8
Predictors of care home resident conveyance to hospital or referral to community pathways by a regional ambulance service attending medical emergencies: a retrospective cross sectional study	8
The association between geospatial and temporal factors and pre-hospital response to major trauma: a retrospective cohort study in the North of England	8
Non-invasive ventilation for preoxygenation during prehospital anaesthesia – a prospective observational study	8
Aeromedical retrieval services characteristics globally: a scoping review	8
Methoxyflurane in early analgesic therapy by ski patrol members on Swiss ski slopes – an observational cohort study	8
Critically buried avalanche victims can develop severe hypothermia in less than 60 min	8
The role of cervical collars and verbal instructions in minimising spinal movement during self-extrication following a motor vehicle collision - a biomechanical study using healthy volunteers	8
Prioritizing health care workers and first responders for access to the COVID19 vaccine is not unethical, but both fair and effective – an ethical analysis	7
Epidemiology of emergency ambulance service calls related to COVID-19 in Scotland: a national record linkage study	7
London Trauma Conference 2024	7
Prehospital fluid therapy in patients with suspected infection: a survey of ambulance personnel’s practice	7
Correction: Pharmacodynamic properties for inhibition of cAMP- and cGMP elimination by pentoxifylline remain unaltered in vitro during hypothermia	7
Bradycardia in a newborn with accidental severe hypothermia: treat or don’t touch? A case report	7
Service provision for Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED): a survey of operational characteristics	7
A cross-sectional study of mental health-, posttraumatic stress symptoms and post exposure changes in Norwegian ambulance personnel	7
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for hypothermic refractory cardiac arrests in urban areas with temperate climates	7
Pre-hospital suPAR, lactate and CRP measurements for decision-making: a prospective, observational study of patients presenting non-specific complaints	7
Oslo HEMS Conference 2023	7
Conventional versus task-based package organization for out-of-hospital emergency kits: an emergency medical services simulation study	7
Therapeutic efficacy of tranexamic acid on traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
A modified chain-based sponge dressing controls junctional hemorrhage in the tactical combat casualty care simulation of pigs	7
Helicopter emergency medical service dispatch in older trauma: time to reconsider the trigger?	7
Non-medical factors in prehospital resuscitation decision-making: a mixed-methods systematic review	7
Key performance indicators in emergency department simulation: a scoping review	7
Photography tele-transmission by regular ambulance staff for the management of mild traumatic injury: the NiCEPHORE randomised-controlled trial	7
Characteristics of helicopter hoist operations with intubated patients: a retrospective analysis of a Norwegian physician staffed SAR helicopter service	7
Survival and long-term outcomes following in-hospital cardiac arrest in a Swiss university hospital: a prospective observational study	7
Is dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation affected by a bystander’s emotional stress state in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?	7
Developing a translational triage research tool: part two—evaluating the tool through a Delphi study among experts	7
Feasibility of HEMS performed prehospital extracorporeal-cardiopulmonary resuscitation in paediatric cardiac arrests; two case reports	7
Simulation-based randomized trial of medical emergency cognitive aids	7
Earlier point-of-care ultrasound, shorter length of stay in patients with acute flank pain	7