Publications by authors named "D J Den Hartog"
A national multi centre pre-hospital ECPR stepped wedge study; design and rationale of the ON-SCENE study.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med
April 2024
Background: The likelihood of return of spontaneous circulation with conventional advanced life support is known to have an exponential decline and therefore neurological outcome after 20 min in patients with a cardiac arrest is poor. Initiation of venoarterial ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) during resuscitation might improve outcomes if used in time and in a selected patient category. However, previous studies have failed to significantly reduce the time from cardiac arrest to ECMO flow to less than 60 min.
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- The study evaluates the limitations of using an Injury Severity Score (ISS) > 15 to define major trauma (MT) and its impact on trauma care networks.
- A multicenter analysis of the Dutch National Trauma Registry data from 2015 to 2019 involved patients aged 16 and older who were severely injured and examined their in-hospital mortality and clinical outcomes based on their admission to level I vs. non-level I trauma centers.
- The results show no significant difference in in-hospital mortality between patients treated at level I and non-level I facilities, although those at non-level I hospitals had shorter stays and a higher likelihood of being discharged home, suggesting that all trauma care levels yield similar outcomes for severely injured patients.
Pedestal fluctuation measurements with charge exchange imaging at the DIII-D tokamak.
Rev Sci Instrum
November 2022
A new high radial resolution 2D multichannel Charge eXchange Imaging (CXI) diagnostic is under development for deployment at DIII-D. The diagnostic system will measure low-to-intermediate radial wavenumber carbon density fluctuations by observing the n = 8 - 7 (λ = 529.06 nm) C-VI emission line, resulting from charge exchange collisions between heating neutral beam atoms and the intrinsic carbon ion density.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The Berlin poly-trauma definition (BPD) has proven to be a valuable way of identifying patients with at least a 20% risk of mortality, by combining anatomical injury characteristics with the presence of physiological risk factors (PRFs). Severe isolated injuries (SII) are excluded from the BPD. This study describes the characteristics, resource use and outcomes of patients with SII according to their injured body region, and compares them with those included in the BPD.
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