Add to ORKGBackground: On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shooting spree incident in Norway. This article describes the emergency medical service (EMS) response elicited by the two incidents. Methods: A retrospective and observational study was conducted based on data from the EMS systems involved and the public domain. The study was approved by the Data Protection Official and was defined as a quality improvement project. Results: We describe the timeline and logistics of the EMS response, focusing on alarm, dispatch, initial response, triage and evacuation. The scenes in the Oslo government district and at Utøya island are described separately. Conclusions: Many EMS units were activated and effectively...
The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2020.0353Background:...
Background Major incidents (MI) are rare occurrences in Scandinavia. Literature depicting Scandinavi...
Objective: Recent terror attacks led the Norwegian government to develop a procedure for emergency a...
Background: On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shoot...
SJTREM has published an account by Sollid and colleagues of the pre-hospital medical response to the...
© 2015 Rimstad and Sollid; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the t...
Acts of terror often entail major challenges for healthcare services. Not just the medical support, ...
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The Las Vegas Route 91 shooting, as well as other recent mass-casualty events, have exposed gaps in ...
Background: Prehospitalt senter at Oslo University Hospital serves a population of approximately 1...
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The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2020.0353Background:...
Background Major incidents (MI) are rare occurrences in Scandinavia. Literature depicting Scandinavi...
Objective: Recent terror attacks led the Norwegian government to develop a procedure for emergency a...
Background: On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shoot...
SJTREM has published an account by Sollid and colleagues of the pre-hospital medical response to the...
© 2015 Rimstad and Sollid; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the t...
Acts of terror often entail major challenges for healthcare services. Not just the medical support, ...
The Kamedo observer reports study the medical, psychological, organizational and social aspects of d...
The Las Vegas Route 91 shooting, as well as other recent mass-casualty events, have exposed gaps in ...
Background: Prehospitalt senter at Oslo University Hospital serves a population of approximately 1...
This article describes and analyzes the decision-making process related to the establishment of Norw...
Background: Major incidents affect us globally, and are occurring with increasing frequency. There i...
Background: This paper describes the two mass-casualty, terrorist attacks that occurred in Istanbul,...
Background: A suicide bomber attack occurred in Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu on October 14, 2...
Major incidents happen infrequently and challenge the health care system by demanding more resources...
The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2020.0353Background:...
Background Major incidents (MI) are rare occurrences in Scandinavia. Literature depicting Scandinavi...
Objective: Recent terror attacks led the Norwegian government to develop a procedure for emergency a...