Civilian vascular trauma, treatment and outcome at a level 1-trauma centre.

Background: Outcomes after vascular injuries in wartime are well documented, but studies on vascular injuries in a civilian European populations are scarce.

Methods: A retrospective study on all adults admitted to a North-European level 1-trauma centre 2009-2018 with The Abbreviated Injury Scale-codes for non-iatrogenic vascular trauma (VT). Data were extracted from both national and regional trauma-registries, as well as patient charts.

Comorbidities, injury severity and complications predict mortality in thoracic trauma.

Purpose: Thoracic trauma accounts for 25-50% of posttraumatic mortality. Data on epidemiology of thoracic trauma in Scandinavia and risk factors for mortality are scarce. This study aims to provide an overview of epidemiology, clinical events and risk factors for mortality of patients with severe thoracic injuries.

High Mortality from Major Vascular Trauma in Traffic Accidents: A Population-Based Study.

Background And Aims: Injuries involving major arteries are an important cause of mortality and morbidity, most often from road traffic accidents. Our aim was to study the outcome of major vascular trauma from traffic accidents in an entire population, including patients who die at the scene and those who reach hospital alive.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of all patients who sustained major vascular trauma in traffic accidents in Iceland from 2000 to 2011.

Penetrating stab injuries in Iceland: a whole-nation study on incidence and outcome in patients hospitalized for penetrating stab injuries.

Background: Studies on penetrating injuries in Europe are scarce and often represent data from single institutions. The aim of this study was to describe the incidence and demographic features of patients hospitalized for stab injury in a whole nation.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective nationwide population-based study on all consecutive adult patients who were hospitalized in Iceland following knife and machete-related injuries, 2000-2015.

[Penetrating knife injury to the heart treated with emergency department thoracotomy--case report].

Penetrating cardiac injuries usually result in an excessive bleeding and a cardiac tamponade with a very high mortality. If patients reach hospital alive, or within 15 minutes after no signs of life are found, an emergency department thoracotomy (EDT) can be indicated. However, the indications and outcome of this procedure have been debated.

Emergency thoracotomy as a rescue treatment for trauma patients in Iceland.

Objective: Emergency thoracotomy (ET) can be life-saving in highly selected trauma patients, especially after penetrating chest trauma. There is little information on the outcome of ET in European trauma centres. Here we report our experience in Iceland.

Decreasing case fatality in myocardial infarction is explained by improved medical treatment.

Objective: Treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has changed significantly over the past two decades. We investigated the effect of these changes on one-year mortality.

Methods And Results: All hospital admissions for STEMI in Reykjavik, Iceland, during the calendar years of 1986, 1996 and 2006 were studied.