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| Kjetil SundeSummaryAffiliation: University of Oslo Country: Norway Publications
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Decay in chest compression quality due to fatigue is rare during prolonged advanced life support in a manikin modelConrad A Bjørshol
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 19:46. 2011..The aim of this study was to measure chest compression decay during simulated advanced life support (ALS) in a cardiac arrest manikin model...
Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest: where are we now?Kjetil Sunde
Surgical ICU Ullevål, Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Curr Opin Crit Care 17:247-53. 2011..Therapeutic hypothermia is widely recommended after cardiac arrest. In this review, we present publications reflecting the current discussion and opinions related to use of therapeutic hypothermia in comatose adult cardiac arrest survivors...
Implementation of a standardised treatment protocol for post resuscitation care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrestKjetil Sunde
Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 73:29-39. 2007....- Experimental and clinical use of ongoing mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation during angiography and percutaneous coronary interventionKjetil Sunde
Department of Anesthesiology and Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Crit Care Med 36:S405-8. 2008..Coronary heart disease is the most frequent cause of cardiac arrest. Return of spontaneous circulation is often not achieved during resuscitation due to the inability to restore coronary blood flow... - Determination of prognosis after cardiac arrest may be more difficult after introduction of therapeutic hypothermiaKjetil Sunde
Department of Anaesthesiology and Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Surgical Division, Ulleval University Hospital, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 69:29-32. 2006..The previously reported 100% prognosis of a poor neurological outcome in the presence of seizures 72 h post arrest may need to be re-examined after introduction of therapeutic hypothermia... - Outcome when adrenaline (epinephrine) was actually given vs. not given - post hoc analysis of a randomized clinical trialTheresa M Olasveengen
Department of Anaesthesiology and Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital, PB 4956 Nydalen, N 0424 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 83:327-32. 2012..The present post hoc analysis on the RCT data compares outcomes for patients actually receiving adrenaline to those not receiving adrenaline... - Acute ischemic heart disease alters ventricular fibrillation waveform characteristics in out-of hospital cardiac arrestTheresa M Olasveengen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research and Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 80:412-7. 2009..We wanted to confirm these recent animal data in humans and explore the possibility for such characteristics to identify acute ischemia during cardiac arrest... - Out-of hospital advanced life support with or without a physician: effects on quality of CPR and outcomeTheresa M Olasveengen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 80:1248-52. 2009..The presence of physicians is believed to facilitate optimal management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but has not been sufficiently documented... - Intravenous drug administration during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a randomized trialTheresa M Olasveengen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevaal, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
JAMA 302:2222-9. 2009.... - Discriminating the effect of accelerated compression from accelerated decompression during high-impulse CPR in a porcine model of cardiac arrestØystein Tømte
Institute for Experimental Medical Research and Centre for Heart Failure Research, Oslo University Hospital Ulleval, Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 81:488-92. 2010..The present animal study compares haemodynamics during two different hybrid compression patterns to a standard compression pattern resembling that of modern mechanical chest compression devices... - Effect of implementation of new resuscitation guidelines on quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survivalTheresa M Olasveengen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research and Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, University of Oslo, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 80:407-11. 2009..We have evaluated if quality of CPR performed by the Oslo Emergency Medical System (EMS) improved after implementation of the modified 2005 CPR Guidelines, and if any such improvement would result in increased survival... - Mechanical chest compressions with trapezoidal waveform improve haemodynamics during cardiac arrestJo Kramer-Johansen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 82:213-8. 2011..We studied the haemodynamic differences of such waveforms in a porcine model of cardiac arrest... - Prearrest administration of low-molecular-weight heparin in porcine cardiac arrest: hemodynamic effects and resuscitabilityMorten Pytte
Institute for Experimental Medical Research and Department of Anesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Crit Care Med 36:881-6. 2008..We studied the hemodynamic effects of prearrest anticoagulation with a low-molecular-weight heparin suitable for clinical use during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pigs... - Arterial blood gases during basic life support of human cardiac arrest victimsMorten Pytte
Institute for Experimental Medical Research and Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, Kirkeveien 166, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 77:35-8. 2008..Ventilation with tidal volumes sufficient to raise the victim's chest is an integral part of guidelines for lay-rescuer basic life support, but optimal tidal volume, frequency and ratio to chest compressions are not known... - Advanced life support performance with manual and mechanical chest compressions in a randomized, multicentre manikin studyOystein Tomte
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Surgical Division, University of Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 80:1152-7. 2009..Study site variability in these factors coupled to randomization of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) method was studied during simulated cardiac arrest prior to a multicentre clinical trial... - Is CPR quality improving? A retrospective study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrestTheresa M Olasveengen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Ulleval University Hospital, University of Oslo, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 75:260-6. 2007..To evaluate the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by a physician-manned ambulance, and assess whether it changed with time influenced by developing scientific evidence and guideline changes... - A failed attempt to improve quality of out-of-hospital CPR through performance evaluationTheresa Mariero Olasveengen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Prehosp Emerg Care 11:427-33. 2007..Our hypothesis was that providing CPR performance evaluation (CPR-PE) to three ambulance services would facilitate local education and implementation of CPR guidelines and, consequently, improve CPR quality... - Improving outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by strengthening weak links of the local Chain of Survival; quality of advanced life support and post-resuscitation careInger Lund-Kordahl
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ulleval, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 81:422-6. 2010..We wanted to assess if targeted attempts to strengthen the weak links of our local chain; quality of advanced life support (ALS) and post-resuscitation care, would improve outcome... - Progressing from initial non-shockable rhythms to a shockable rhythm is associated with improved outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrestTheresa M Olasveengen
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Ulleval University Hospital, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 80:24-9. 2009..We wanted to confirm this observation in our prospectively collected database, and assess whether differences in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quality could help to explain any such difference in outcome... - Strong and weak aspects of an established post-resuscitation treatment protocol-A five-year observational studyOystein Tømte
Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 82:1186-93. 2011..We now evaluate protocol adherence and survival rates after five years with this established SOP... - A comparison of intravascular and surface cooling techniques in comatose cardiac arrest survivorsØystein Tømte
Department of Anesthesiology, Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Crit Care Med 39:443-9. 2011..We compared modern core (Coolgard) and surface (Arctic Sun) cooling devices with a zero hypothesis of equal cooling, complications, and neurologic outcomes... - Haemodynamic effects of adrenaline (epinephrine) depend on chest compression quality during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pigsMorten Pytte
Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 71:369-78. 2006..We have studied the haemodynamic effects of adrenaline during CPR with good laboratory quality and with quality simulating clinical findings and the feasibility of monitoring these effects through VF waveform analysis... - Inspiratory impedance threshold valve during CPRAudun Langhelle
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Ulleval University Hospital, N 0407 Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 52:39-48. 2002..The valve is a promising new tool in CPR, but more independent studies of the device are needed... - Comparison of hands-off time during CPR with manual and semi-automatic defibrillation in a manikin modelMorten Pytte
Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Resuscitation 73:131-6. 2007..We hypothesised that interruptions would be shorter when the defibrillator was operated in manual mode by trained and certified ambulance personnel... - Predicting survival with good neurologic recovery at hospital admission after successful resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the OHCA scoreKjetil Sunde
Eur Heart J 28:773; author reply 773-4. 2007 - Effects of interrupting precordial compressions on the calculated probability of defibrillation success during out-of-hospital cardiac arrestTrygve Eftestøl
Stavanger University College, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stavanger, Norway
Circulation 105:2270-3. 2002..We analyzed whether similar hands-off intervals in humans with ventricular fibrillation causes changes in the ECG predicting a lower probability of ROSC... - Continuous mechanical chest compressions during cardiac arrest to facilitate restoration of coronary circulation with percutaneous coronary interventionHaakon Kiil Grogaard
J Am Coll Cardiol 50:1093-4. 2007 - [Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest saves more lives!]Kjetil Sunde
Anestesiavdelingen, Kirurgisk divisjon, Ullevål universitetssykehus 0407 Oslo
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 124:925-6. 2004..In this paper the issue is discussed and the therapy recommended... - [New guidelines for basic and advanced resuscitation of adults and children]Kristian Lexow
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 122:282-4. 2002..Intubation of children is only recommended when performed by experienced personnel. The use of drugs is less recommended than previously; albumin is not recommended for the newly born... - Shock outcome is related to prior rhythm and duration of ventricular fibrillationJoar Eilevstjønn
Laerdal Medical AS, P O Box 377, N 4002 Stavanger, Norway
Resuscitation 75:60-7. 2007..We also analysed how these factors relate to the VF analysis feature median slope... - Effects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation on predictors of ventricular fibrillation defibrillation success during out-of-hospital cardiac arrestTrygve Eftestøl
Stavanger University College, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PO Box 8002, 4068 Stavanger, Norway
Circulation 110:10-5. 2004..To examine whether CPR improves myocardial readiness for defibrillation, we analyzed whether CPR causes changes in predictors of defibrillation success calculated from the ventricular fibrillation waveform... - Prediction of countershock success using single features from multiple ventricular fibrillation frequency bands and feature combinations using neural networksAndreas Neurauter
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Resuscitation 73:253-63. 2007..This may indicate that various simple VF features, such as median slope already reach the maximum prediction power extractable from VF ECG... - Predicting outcome after cardiac arrest: two caveatsJo Kramer-Johansen
Resuscitation 66:108-9; author reply 109-10. 2005 - Reconfirmation algorithms should be the standard of care in automated external defibrillatorsJo Kramer-Johansen
Resuscitation 70:474-5; author reply 475. 2006 - Quality of chest compressions during 10min of single-rescuer basic life support with different compression: ventilation ratios in a manikin modelConrad Arnfinn Bjørshol
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Division of Acute Care Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
Resuscitation 77:95-100. 2008..As fatigue may reduce BLS performance over time we wanted to examine the quality of chest compressions in a single-rescuer scenario during prolonged BLS with different compression:ventilation ratios (C:V ratios)... - Why Norwegian 2005 guidelines differs slightly from the ERC guidelinesKristian Lexow
Division of Acute Care Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
Resuscitation 72:490-2. 2007 - [Therapeutic hypothermia--pharmacology and pathophysiology]Trine Funder Pedersen
Det medisinske fakultet, Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Medpost 159, Olav Kyrres gate 3, 7006 Trondheim
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 127:163-6. 2007..This review focuses mainly on physiological and pharmacological aspects of therapeutic hypothermia... - Therapeutic hypothermia after out-of hospital cardiac arrest: how to secure worldwide implementationEldar Søreide
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 21:209-15. 2008..Our review focuses on how generic knowledge on implementation may help speed up the transfer of therapeutic hypothermia into daily practice...