Mountain Medicine Research Group
The Mountain Medicine Research Group is the result of a three-party collaboration between Haukeland University Hospital, The Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation and The University of Bergen.
About the research group
The term Mountain Medicine describes a discipline of medicine concerning prevention and treatment of medical conditions that may arise in the high mountains. It is characterized by difficult conditions making even the simplest of medical examinations, interventions and treatment potentially very demanding.
Being skilled in Mountain Medicine may be useful for a variety of different medical professions, but will be especially applicable for doctors working outside hospitals, either as GPs in rural areas, anesthesiologists, or doctors travelling with expeditions for example.
Research themes in this context may include hypothermia, frostbite, altitude injury, expeditional medicine, avalanches, anesthesia and analgesia in primitive conditions, toxicology and traumatology.
Vision
The vision of the Mountain Medicine Reseach Group is three-fold.
We aim to:
- Preform research of high quality.
- Be a multidiciplinary national arena for networking, idea- and experience exchange in Mountain Medicine Research.
- Establish cooperations with similar international research groups.
Publications
Published articles
Articles published by members of the reserach group on the subject of Mountain Medicine
- Wik L, Brattebø G, Østerås Ø, Assmus J, Irusta U, Aramendi E, Mydske S, Skaalhegg T, Skaiaa SC, Thomassen Ø.
Physiological effects of providing supplemental air for avalanche victims. A randomised trial.
Resuscitation. 2022 Mar;172:38-46. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 35063621.
- Mydske, S., Thomassen, Ø.
Is prehospital use of active external warming dangerous for patients with accidental hypothermia: a systematic review.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 28, 77 (2020).
- Thomassen O, Skaiaa SC, Assmuss J, Østerås Ø, Heltne JK, Wik L, Brattebo G.
Mountain rescue cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a comparison between manual and mechanical chest compressions during manikin cardio resuscitation.
Emerg Med J. 2017 May 5.
- Skaiaa SC, Thomassen Ø.
Skredulykker og behandling av skredtatte.
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2016 Mar 15;136(5):430-2.
- Skaiaa SC, Brattebø G, Assmus J, Thomassen O.
The Impact of Environmental Factors in Pre-Hospital Thermistor-based Tympanic Temperature Measurement: A pilot field study.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2015 Sep 24;23:72.
- Karlsen AM, Thomassen O, Vikenes BH, Brattebø G.
Equipment to prevent, diagnose, and treat hypothermia: a survey of Norwegian pre-hospital services.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2013 Aug 12;21:63.
- Hedelin H, Thomassen Ø.
Wilderness Medicine requires improvisation and evidence-based knowledge.
Lakartidningen. 2013 Jun 18-Jul 2;110(25-26):1230-1.
- Marland S, Ellerton J, Andolfatto G, Strapazzon G, Thomassen O, Brandner B, Weatherall A, Paal P.
Ketamine: use in anesthesia.
CNS Neurosci Ther. 2013 Jun;19(6):381-9.
- Thomassen Ø, Færevik H, Østerås Ø, Sunde GA, Zakariassen E, Sandsund M, Heltne JK, Brattebø G.
Comparison of three different prehospital wrapping methods for preventing hypothermia--a crossover study in humans.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2011 Jun 23;19:41.
- Thomassen O, Skaiaa SC, Brattebo G, Heltne JK, Dahlberg T, Sunde GA.
Does the horizontal position increase risk of rescue death following suspension trauma?
Emerg Med J. 2009 Dec;26(12):896-8.
- Thomassen O, Skaiaa SC.
High-altitude cerebral edema with absence of headache.
Wilderness Environ Med. 2007 Spring;18(1):45-7.
- Thomassen Ø, Brattebø G, Rostrup M.
Carbon monoxide poisoning while using a small cooking stove in a tent.
Am J Emerg Med. 2004 May;22(3):204-6.
People
Group manager
Øyvind Thomassen Group Leader,Senior Researcher MD, PhD, Dept of Emergency Medicine
Group members
Jörg Assmus Senior Researcher Biostatistician, Centre of competence on clinical research
Guttorm Brattebø MD, PhD, Dept of Emergency Medicine.
Ane Marthe Helland Ph.d.
Sigurd Mydske Ph.d.
Lars Flatø Nessa Technical rescue advisor
Research associates
Øystein Wiggen Researcher at SINTEF, Dept of Research, Technology and Innovation
Hans Flaatten MD, PhD, Senior Consultant Dept of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Professor I K1/UiB
Jon-Kenneth Heltne MD, PhD, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Professor II K1/UiB
Øyvind Østerås, MD, Head of Dept of Emergency Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital
Sven Christjar Skaiaa MD, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Norwegian Air Ambulance, Ullevål University Hospital
Lars Wik MD, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ullevål University Hospital, and senior researcher at the National Centre of competence on Prehospital Emergenc