OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation & Emergency Medicine is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The MeSH heading “Call Center” is due for an update: why we recommend the more precise heading “Emergency Medical Communication Center”	54
Simulating the methodological bias in the ATLS classification of hypovolemic shock: a critical reappraisal of the base deficit renaissance	53
Trauma center vs. nearest non-trauma center: direct transport or bypass approach for out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest	31
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	27
Psychoactive substances and previous hospital admissions, triage and length of stay in rural injuries: a prospective observational study	27
Development of novel thoracic retractor for resuscitative thoracotomy	26
Prognostic value of arterial carbon dioxide tension during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients receiving extracorporeal resuscitation	25
The association between urgency level and hospital admission, mortality and resource utilization in three emergency department triage systems: an observational multicenter study	24
The forgotten cohort-lessons learned from prehospital trauma death: a retrospective cohort study	24
Unplanned transfers from wards to intensive care units: how well does NEWS identify patients in need of urgent escalation of care?	24
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
TeLePhone Respiratory (TeLePoR) score to assess the risk of immediate respiratory support through phone call for acute dyspnoea: a prospective cohort study	22
The use of strong analgesics for prehospital pain management in children in the region of Southern Denmark: a register-based study	21
ST-T segment changes in prehospital emergency physicians in the field: a prospective observational trial	21
Practical psychosocial care for providers of pre-hospital care: a summary of the report ‘valuing staff, valuing patients’	21
A translational triage research development tool: standardizing prehospital triage decision-making systems in mass casualty incidents	21
The impact of concurrency conflicts on optimal location of air ambulance bases in Norway	20
What motivates and demotivates emergency response volunteers? A survey-based factor analysis study	20
Concrete silo collapse: emergency medical services response to a mass casualty incident	20
Pediatric trauma over a decade: demographics, mechanisms of injury, and mortality at a major Danish trauma center—a retrospective cohort study	19
Correction: The implication of a translational triage tool in mass casualty incidents: part three: a multinational study, using validated patient cards	19
Critical interventions, diagnosis, and mortality in children treated by a physician-manned mobile emergency care unit	18
Correction to: Use of troponin assay after electrical injuries: a 15-year multicentre retrospective cohort in emergency departments	18
Removal of the cervical collar from alpine rescue protocols? A biomechanical non-inferiority trial in real-life mountain conditions	18

Management and outcomes of firearm-related vascular injuries	18
Outcome of severely injured patients in a unique trauma system with 24/7 double trauma surgeon on-call service	18
Characteristics and motivational factors for joining a lay responder system dispatch to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests	17
Characteristics of patients who received helicopter emergency medical services in Japan from 2012 to 2019: a retrospective analysis of data from Tochigi Prefecture	16
Factors influencing the pre-hospital management of civilian burn mass casualty incidents in the 21st century: a scoping review	16
Interleukin-6 and its association with outcome in traumatic brain injury: a prospective cohort	16
Exploring use of coercion in the Norwegian ambulance service – a qualitative study	16
Trauma patient transport to hospital using helicopter emergency medical services or road ambulance in Sweden: a comparison of survival and prehospital time intervals	16
Pre-hospital management of penetrating neck injuries: derivation of an algorithm through a National Modified Delphi	15
Predictors of post-intubation hypotension in trauma patients following prehospital emergency anaesthesia: a multi-centre observational study	15
Mortality after paediatric emergency calls for patients with or without pre-existing comorbidity: a nationwide population based cohort study	15
Favourable neurological outcome following paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective observational study	15
Firefighters and police search dog handlers’ experiences working closely with paramedics in urban search and rescue incidents: a qualitative focus group study from Oslo	15
Beyond life extension– is it time for ‘Emergency Last Aid’ training?	15
Clinicians’ experience of barriers and facilitators to care delivery of an extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation service for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a qualitative survey	14
Lumping disparate emergency dispatch priority levels together creates an assumption error regarding ‘overtriage’	14
A wrong conclusion	14
Emergency call utilization over a 10-years period: an observational study in Region Zealand, Denmark, 2013–2022	14
Differences in characteristics between patients ≥ 65 and < 65 years of age with orthopaedic injuries after severe trauma	14
Mortality rates in Norwegian HEMS—a retrospective analysis from Central Norway	14
Prothrombin complex concentrate for reversal of oral anticoagulants in patients with oral anticoagulation-related critical bleeding: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials	14
Pharmacodynamic properties for inhibition of cAMP- and cGMP elimination by pentoxifylline remain unaltered in vitro during hypothermia	14
A scenario based approach to optimizing cost-effectiveness of physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services compared to ground-based Emergency Medical Services in Finland	13
Decision-making by medical officer in charge during major incidents: a qualitative study	13
The hidden value of MRI: modifying treatment decisions in C-spine injuries	13
Flow dynamics	13
Landiolol bolus application for tachycardic dysrhythmia in the prehospital EMS setting – An observational study of a novel concept	13
A scoping review of cognitive load assessment tools suitable for clinicians performing REBOA	12
Impact of delayed mobile medical team dispatch for respiratory distress calls: a propensity score matched study from a French emergency communication center	12
Patients’ perspectives on point-of-care diagnostics and treatment by emergency medical technicians in acute COPD exacerbations: A qualitative study	12
Incidence of post-induction hypotension following emergency rapid sequence induction with ketamine: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Invited Letter to editor (respons STRE-D-24–00176)	12
Prevalence and outcomes of hypocalcemia on ED arrival in traumatic patients before blood transfusions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Post-mission debriefs in helicopter emergency medicine services– introducing “The compassionate debrief”	12
Lessons learned from the first 50 COVID-19 critical care transfer missions conducted by a civilian UK Helicopter Emergency Medical Service team	12
Online training to improve BLS performance with dispatcher assistance? Results of a cluster-randomised controlled simulation trial	11
Performance measures of the medical priority dispatch system in an urban basic life support system	11
The Field’s mass shooting: emergency medical services response	11
Cleared to land? A nationwide analysis of emergency care hospital and HEMS infrastructure in Germany	11
Identifying traumatic significant haemorrhage is challenging for patient with low and intermediate risk, not when bleeding is obvious	11
Prehospital procedural sedation and analgesia agent selection: propofol, etomidate, ketamine	11
Physician-led interprofessional pre-hospital teams: does the science hold up?	11
Validation of a modified South African triage scale in a high-resource setting: a retrospective cohort study	11
Rescue blankets as multifunctional rescue equipment in alpine and wilderness emergencies: a commentary	11
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	11
Remote real-time supervision of prehospital point-of-care ultrasound: a feasibility study	11
Maximum movement and cumulative movement (travel) to inform our understanding of secondary spinal cord injury and its application to collar use in self-extrication	11
Comment on “A randomized double-blind trial of intranasal dexmedetomidine versus intranasal esketamine for procedural sedation and analgesia in young children”	11
Excellent agreement of Norwegian trauma registry data compared to corresponding data in electronic patient records	11
Civilian vascular trauma, treatment and outcome at a level 1-trauma centre	10

A head-to-head comparison of S100B and GFAP/UCH-L1 for detection of traumatic intracranial lesions in a Scandinavian trauma cohort	10
Pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia in 2025: ten years on from the modification of induction regimes	10
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	9
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	9
Prehospital measurement and treatment of ionised hypocalcaemia by UK helicopter emergency medical services in trauma patients: a survey of current practice	9
Correction: Transportation model utilized in the first week following the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Turkey - transport health centers	9
Prolonged critical avalanche burial for nearly 23 h with severe hypothermia and severe frostbite with good recovery: a case report	9
Are 5-level triage systems improved by using a symptom based approach?—a Danish cohort study	9
Strategic implementation of transportation networks following the February 6th Kahramanmaraş Earthquake: an observational analysis	9
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	9
Prehospital undertriage of older injured patients in western Switzerland: an observational cross-sectional study	9
Imposter or knight in shining armor? Pelvic circumferential compression devices (PCCD) for severe pelvic injuries in patients with multiple trauma: a trauma-registry analysis	9
Pain assessment and management of adult patients in the Swedish EMS: a nationwide registry study	9
Characteristics and outcome of traumatic cardiac arrest at a level 1 trauma centre over 10 years in Sweden	8
Rendezvous between ambulances and prehospital physicians in the Capital Region of Denmark: a descriptive study	8
Outcomes in patients not conveyed by emergency medical services (EMS): a one-year prospective study	8
Ask not liberal or conservative intravenous fluids in septic shock: ask rather why and when	8
Characteristics of a trauma population in an ambulance organisation in Sweden: results from an observational study	8
Factors influencing on-scene time in a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS): a retrospective observational study	8
Use of the HOPE score to assess survival outcome of hypothermic cardiac arrest selected by ECLS rewarming	8
Temperature should not be ignored when analyzing the factors affecting trauma outcomes	8
Transportation model utilized in the first week following the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Turkey - transport health centers	8
Effect of cold environments on technical performance and perceived workload and stress during advanced medical procedures: a randomized controlled simulation study	8
Risk stratification tools for patients with syncope in emergency medical services and emergency departments: a scoping review	8
The effect of restrictive versus liberal selection criteria on survival in ECPR: a retrospective analysis of a multi-regional dataset	8
CPR-induced consciousness in hypothermic cardiac arrest: Where is the limit of tolerance of the human brain? A case report	8
Optimal cardiopulmonary resuscitation duration for favorable neurological outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	8
Impact of “hypotension on arrival” on required surgical disciplines and usage of damage control protocols in severely injured patients	8
Prehospital blood gas analyses in acute patients treated by a ground-based physician-manned emergency unit: a cohort study	8
Demography, emergency interventions and outcome after severe pelvic injuries: a two-decade registry study from South- Western Norway	8
Deep-learning model for screening sepsis using electrocardiography	8
Non-invasive ventilation for preoxygenation during prehospital anaesthesia – a prospective observational study	7
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation during hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a comprehensive review and recommendations for practice	7
The association between geospatial and temporal factors and pre-hospital response to major trauma: a retrospective cohort study in the North of England	7
Proarrhythmic changes in human cardiomyocytes during hypothermia by milrinone and isoprenaline, but not levosimendan: an experimental in vitro study	7
Critically buried avalanche victims can develop severe hypothermia in less than 60 min	7
Global, regional, and national assessment of foreign body aspiration (1990–2021): novel insights into incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years	7
The skåne emergency medicine (SEM) cohort	7
Nine golden codes: improving the accuracy of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatch—a retrospective, multi-organisational study in the East of England	7
Methoxyflurane in early analgesic therapy by ski patrol members on Swiss ski slopes – an observational cohort study	7
Effect of oxygen supplementation on cognitive performance among HEMS providers after acute exposure to altitude: the HEMS II randomized clinical trial	7
Analgesia in pediatric trauma patients in physician-staffed Austrian helicopter rescue: a 12-year registry analysis	7
Correction: A regional modification to the Revised Swiss System for clinical staging of hypothermia including confusion	7
Trauma outcomes differences in females: a prospective analysis of 76 000 trauma patients in the Asia-Pacific region and the contributing factors	7
Locating helicopter ambulance bases in Iceland: efficient and fair solutions	7
A cross-sectional study of mental health-, posttraumatic stress symptoms and post exposure changes in Norwegian ambulance personnel	6
Conventional versus task-based package organization for out-of-hospital emergency kits: an emergency medical services simulation study	6
Correction: Pharmacodynamic properties for inhibition of cAMP- and cGMP elimination by pentoxifylline remain unaltered in vitro during hypothermia	6
Is dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation affected by a bystander’s emotional stress state in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?	6
Impact of COVID-19 on mortality in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with return of spontaneous circulation: a retrospective cohort study	6
Key performance indicators in emergency department simulation: a scoping review	6
Therapeutic efficacy of tranexamic acid on traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Simulation-based randomized trial of medical emergency cognitive aids	6
Acidosis as a promising early indicator of mortality among point-of-care parameters and vital signs in non-traumatic critically ill patients	6
Prehospital fluid therapy in patients with suspected infection: a survey of ambulance personnel’s practice	6
Earlier point-of-care ultrasound, shorter length of stay in patients with acute flank pain	6
A modified chain-based sponge dressing controls junctional hemorrhage in the tactical combat casualty care simulation of pigs	6
Aeromedical retrieval services characteristics globally: a scoping review	6
Response to letter to the editor: Awareness strategies and the physiological impact of pain in prehospital analgesia management	6
Helicopter emergency medical service for time critical interfacility transfers of patients with cardiovascular emergencies	6
London Trauma Conference 2024	6
Feasibility of HEMS performed prehospital extracorporeal-cardiopulmonary resuscitation in paediatric cardiac arrests; two case reports	6
Service provision for Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED): a survey of operational characteristics	6
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	6
Developing a translational triage research tool: part two—evaluating the tool through a Delphi study among experts	6
A classification system for identifying patients dead on ambulance arrival: a prehospital medical record review	6
Factors associated with a positive shock index in the prehospital setting after major trauma	6
Severe trauma associated cardiac failure	6
Non-medical factors in prehospital resuscitation decision-making: a mixed-methods systematic review	6
Undertriage in geriatric trauma: insights from a multicentre cohort study	6
Oslo HEMS Conference 2023	6