Center for Akutforskning

Hjem
Danmark
Aarhus
Center for Akutforskning

Center for Akutforskning er en forskningsenhed ved Aarhus Universitetshospital og Aarhus Universitet

Center for Akutforskning er en forskningsenhed på Aarhus Universitetshospital og Aarhus Universitet.

16/09/2025

🚑 Exciting research in progress by Emma Bürgstein, an international research fellow and paramedic from Germany! 👏

Emma is currently visiting our center as part of an international research visit, aimed at studying the impact of CPR coaching in simulated paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

🌍 Together with Associate Professor Kasper G, Lauridsen and PhD student Johannes Wittig from the Research Center for Emergency Medicine, Emma is leading a simulation-based multicenter randomized trial investigating whether the CPR-Coaching method can help paramedic teams improve CPR quality during paediatric OHCA together with collaborators from Germany, Austria and Canada.

CPR Coaching is a new concept of team members providing real-time coaching and feedback on chest compression quality during CPR. CPR coaching has been developed for the in-hospital context but Emma and her team will assess if CPR Coaching can be transferred to the prehospital setting. This could contribute to improved quality of care and ultimately patient outcomes.

🚀 We are looking forward to seeing the results of the study and to learn more about the potential of CPR Coaching for paediatric OHCA!

12/09/2025

🚑 Who CARES2: Improving Emergency Care for Older Patients 🚑

We are excited to welcome Kasper Hoberg von Benzon, MSc in Health Sciences, as a new PhD student at the Research Center for Emergency Medicine.

The Who CARES2 project aims to improve emergency care for older patients by testing whether ambulance personnel can apply two simple tools: an age-adjusted early warning score and the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), to better assess disease severity and frailty before patients arrive at the hospital.

By combining these tools with a holistic, patient-centered approach, the study seeks to:
✅ Improve quality of life for frail older patients
✅ Reduce unnecessary hospital admissions
✅ Lower healthcare costs through more appropriate prehospital care

The project will include training of ambulance staff and a large clinical trial in the Central Denmark Region. With this work, the project aims to contribute to more value-based, personalized emergency care for one of the most vulnerable patient groups.

We look forward to following Kasper’s journey and the important knowledge this project will bring!

09/09/2025

🚨 New publication on patients with pulmonary embolism in Emergency Departments during COVID-19

A new study in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica investigated whether the COVID-19 pandemic influenced outcomes for patients admitted with pulmonary embolism (PE) to Danish Emergency Departments.

👉 The key finding: no significant difference in 30-day mortality, disease severity at admission, or ICU transfers between the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods.

📌 In short: The COVID-19 pandemic did not impact short-term mortality or acute outcomes for PE patients in the Central Denmark Region.

🔗 Read the full article here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40828519/

👏 Congratulations to Katarina, Sara, Hans, and Marianne on this important contribution!

05/09/2025

✨ New beginnings at the Research Center for Emergency Medicine ✨

We’re excited to welcome both new PhD students, Research Year students, and Master thesis students who have just started with us!

Looking forward to introducing you to all the new people starting here and to their projects!

Stay tuned! 🚀

25/08/2025

🚨 Adherence to Antibiotic Guidelines in Acute Patients With Suspected Severe Pneumonia

Sanne Schjødt and colleagues have just published an exciting study in Dansk Tidsskrift for Akutmedicin:

🔍 What they found:
Only 38% of patients prescribed the regional “Start package for severe pneumonia” (piperacillin/tazobactam + clarithromycin) actually fulfilled the guideline criteria.
This highlights a substantial gap in guideline adherence and points to overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics in Danish EDs.

💡 Why it matters:
- Community-acquired pneumonia is a major driver of antibiotic use.
- Overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics accelerates antimicrobial resistance.
- Results provide concrete insights for Antibiotic Stewardship and implementation of updated pneumonia guidelines.

📖 Read the full open access article here:
👉 https://doi.org/10.7146/akut.v8i1.156720

Congratulations to Sanne and co-authors Marianne Lisby, Lotte Ebdrup, and Marie Kristine Jessen on this timely and clinically important work! 👏

20/08/2025

🔔 Time to ring the bell — twice!

At the Research Center for Emergency Medicine, ringing the bell marks a milestone — and this this week, PhD student Sandra Thun Langsted had every reason to celebrate 🎉
She just published two papers, including her 2nd PhD article

📄 #1: Identifying the optimal thoracentesis training strategy: a randomized non-inferiority study.
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40482565/

Can we train emergency doctors more effectively without taking them away from the clinic?

This multicenter RCT compared traditional instructor-led thoracentesis courses with a blended, self-directed, spaced learning program integrated into clinical work hours.

🔍 Key findings:
✅ Comparable skill acquisition after 2 weeks
✅ Superior skill retention at 3 months with spaced learning
✅ Higher procedural volume in spaced learning group
✅ Better integration into clinical workflows

💡 This study highlights the potential of spaced and self-directed learning in clinical education – especially in a time where resources, supervision and training time are increasingly limited

🧪 In collaboration with: Bo Løfgren, Kasper G. Lauridsen, Søren Helbo Skaarup & Jesper Weile.

🌍 #2: International collaboration with Royal London Hospital
During her research stay, Sandra joined the ED research team at Royal London Hospital led by Ben Bloom and contributed to the DECIPHER study, published in BMJ Health & Care Informatics.
Link: https://informatics.bmj.com/content/32/1/e101433

Goal: Use AI to automate classification of head CT reports for intracranial bleeds (ICB).

Three methods were tested: Text classification program, a commercial NLP tool, and a custom GPT-based LLM

🧠 Highlights:
✔️ 100% sensitivity and 97.4% specificity for the LLM
✔️ 86% reduction in manual review workload
✔️ Outperformed both competing methods

💥 A promising tool for scaling up research and improving data workflows in emergency medicine.

15/08/2025

🚫❤️ The myth of a poor life after cardiac arrest – busted ❤️🚫

Surviving a cardiac arrest can be life-changing – but not necessarily for the worse. A new study from Aarhus University Hospital, Hammel Neurocenter, and international partners finds that 98% of survivors have good functional ability and a quality of life comparable to the general population, even 5–8 years later.

Among the research team is Professor emeritus Hans Kirkegaard from the Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Emergency Research, who contributed to the project alongside colleagues in Denmark, Finland, and Germany.

📊 Key findings:
✅ 97.8% have good functional ability
✅ Quality of life matches the general population
⚡ 45.5% experience fatigue
💤 24.5% have sleep problems
🧠 52.3% of relatives report cognitive decline in the survivor

🔍 Fear of severe, long-term disability should not be the main reason for declining resuscitation. While some survivors experience fatigue, sleep problems, or cognitive changes, these challenges do not overshadow an overall good quality of life for most.
📚 Read the study in Resuscitation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40499675/

12/08/2025

📣 Back from summer break with exciting news: Major funding awarded to the National Nursing Research Programme on Children’s Rights in Healthcare

💡We're proud to share that Claus Sixtus Jensen, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Associate Professor at the Department of Pediatrics and the Research Center for Emergency Medicine at Aarhus University Hospital, has been awarded 7.5 million DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to lead the RIGHT CHILD-CARE Nursing Programme.

🏥 Children aged 0–18 who are hospitalized often undergo non-urgent procedures that may involve being physically restrained against their will. This practice can lead to trauma, fear, and anxiety, with long-term consequences for children, parents, and healthcare professionals.

📘 The RIGHT CHILD-CARE project aims to translate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into clinical practice by promoting child-centered, restraint-free care through interactive tools and the ISupport standards. The goal: to empower children, reduce restraint use, and ease the burden on families and staff.

🌍 This five-year initiative involves seven departments across all five Danish regions, reaching more than 64,000 children, their families, and 1,200 healthcare professionals.

01/07/2025

☀️ Happy Summer Holidays ☀️

We are taking a short summer break from our SoMe-activities and will return in August.

Thank you for following along with our research. We’ll be back soon with new updates, insights, and inspiration from the world of emergency medicine.

Until then, we wish you a relaxing and sunny summer! 🌿🌊😎

29/05/2025

🏥Manual vs. Automated Defibrillators? A closer look at defibrillator usage in hospitals

⚡During in-hospital cardiac arrest, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are generally used initially by the ward staff after which a specialized cardiac arrest team will use a manual defibrillator. However, the impact of using AEDs or manual defibrillators during in-hospital cardiac arrest is unknown.

🌍 During his international research stay at the Research Center for Emergency Medicine, Moritz Nettinger from Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, investigated this question together with Johannes Wittig, Dung N. Riis, Bo Løfgren, and Kasper G. Lauridsen.

📊 By using data from AEDs and manual defibrillators from the Central Denmark Region, the researchers found out that

• There was no difference in the accuracy of rhythm analyses between manual defibrillators and AEDs

• Use of manual defibrillators was associated with significantly shorter chest compression pauses for rhythm analyses and defibrillation as compared to AEDs

📄 Overall, the study supports the use of AEDs during the initial phase of in-hospital cardiac arrest.

The study is published in Resuscitation and can be read freely here: 🔗 https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(25)00131-5/fulltext

• Center for Akutforskning, Aarhus University Hospital
• Aarhus Universitet
• Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg

27/05/2025

🚨 Emergency Medicine Day – May 27, 2025 🚨

Today, Emergency Medicine Day 2025, shines a light on the challenges faced by emergency medical professionals and acknowledges the vital role they play in our healthcare systems.

This year’s themes include:
💪 Recognition of Expertise: Honoring the ongoing dedication of emergency care teams—clinicians, paramedics, and support staff—who work under pressure to provide critical care.

🛠️ Support Through Research: Emphasizing the need for improved resources, sustainable staffing, and informed policy—areas where research plays a key role.

🌍 Equity in Access: Advocating for global efforts to ensure emergency care is timely and accessible, regardless of setting or geography.

🔗 Read more about the Emergency Medicine Day here: https://emergencymedicine-day.org/

22/05/2025

🎉 Huge congratulations to Stig Holm Ovesen on successfully defending his PhD! 👏

His project, Point-of-care Ultrasound and Dyspnea (POCUS) in the Emergency Department, investigated whether using bedside ultrasound as part of the initial assessment could improve outcomes for patients with shortness of breath.

His findings show that while POCUS increases physician confidence and reduces use of chest X-rays, its overall impact on major outcomes like length of stay and mortality is modest in a broad ED-population. The work highlights the need for targeted use in selected patients, and for real-world outcome-focused studies.

An important contribution to emergency medicine and the growing field of clinical ultrasound

Well done, Stig! 💪🩺

Adresse

P***e Juul Jensens Boulevard 161
Aarhus
8200

Internet side

https://recem.au.dk/

Underretninger

Vær den første til at vide, og lad os sende dig en email, når Center for Akutforskning sender nyheder og tilbud. Din e-mail-adresse vil ikke blive brugt til andre formål, og du kan til enhver tid afmelde dig.

Kontakt Praksis

Send en besked til Center for Akutforskning:

Genveje

Vil du plassere din praksis på toppen av Klinik-listen i Aarhus?

Del

Type

Medicinsk forskningscenter

Akutforskning på Facebook

På denne side ønsker vi, at vise alle interesserede vores arbejde. Vi vil forsøge at give vores følgere et indblik i akutforskningen ved at dele information om vores projekter og præsentere vores resultater her direkte på Facebook. Én gang om ugen deler vi de nyeste artikler, som en af vores forskere har publiceret i et internationalt tidsskrift.

Vi håber meget, at du har lyst til at følge vores side. Så vil vi til gengæld forsøge at forsyne dig med ny viden direkte fra akutforskningens maskinrum.

Desuden modtager vi gerne ris og ros eller gode ideer. Henvendelse bedes rettes til cfa@clin.au.dk