Blar i forfatter Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet "Husum, Hans"

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    • Ketamine for prehospital trauma analgesia in a low-resource rural trauma system: a retrospective comparative study of ketamine and opioid analgesia in a ten-year cohort in Iraq 

      Losvik, Ole Kristian; Murad, Mudhafar Kareem; Skjerve, Eystein; Husum, Hans (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-09)
      Background Opioid analgesics are used in most trauma systems, and only a few studies report on the use of ketamine for prehospital analgesia. In a low-cost rural trauma system in Iraq paramedics have been using prehospital ketamine analgesia for ten years. This study aims to evaluate the effects of prehospital analgesia on physiologic trauma severity indicators and compare the effect of ketamine ...

    • Prehospital trauma care reduces mortality : ten-year results from a time-cohort and trauma audit study in Iraq 

      Murad, Mudhafar Karim; Larsen, Stig; Husum, Hans (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Background Blunt implementation of Western trauma system models is not feasible in low-resource communities with long prehospital transit times. The aims of the study were to evaluate to which extent a low-cost prehospital trauma system reduces trauma deaths where prehospital transit times are long, and to identify specific life support interventions that contributed to survival. Methods In ...

    • Prevalence of hepatitis B & hepatitis C virus infections in potential blood donors in rural Vietnam 

      Le, Viet; Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Lan; Ty, Phung Xuan; Bjørkvoll, Bjørn; Hoel, Hedda B; Gutteberg, Tore Jarl; Husebekk, Anne; Larsen, Stig; Skjerve, Eystein; Husum, Hans (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Safe blood and blood products should be offered to all patients in need for blood transfusion. The objectives of the present study were to establish prevalence estimates for hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infections as a foundation for safe blood transfusion in rural Vietnam, and to check the accuracy of the laboratory analysis used for hepatitis testing of blood donors in Vietnam. A cross-sectional ...