Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 427-433 , April 2010

Scandinavian pre-hospital physician-manned Emergency Medical Services—Same concept across borders?

  • Andreas J. Krüger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway
    • Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine, St. Olav University Hospital, N-7006 Trondheim, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine, St. Olav University Hospital, N-7006 Trondheim, Norway. Tel.: +47 90862586.
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  • Eirik Skogvoll

      Affiliations

    • Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine, St. Olav University Hospital, N-7006 Trondheim, Norway
    • ,
  • Maaret Castrén

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institute, Södersjukhuset 10, 118 83 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Jouni Kurola

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care, Kuopio University Hospital, BO 1777, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
    • ,
  • Hans Morten Lossius

      Affiliations

    • Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway
    • Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
    • Norwegian Air Ambulance, P.O. Box 94, N-1441 Drøbak, Norway.
    • ,
  • The ScanDoc Phase 1a Study Group

Received 24 August 2009 ,Revised 30 November 2009 ,Accepted 17 December 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.019.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.019

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 427-433 , April 2010

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