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

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

23/04/2026

🚑 Can we better identify older patients at risk of readmission after discharge from the Emergency Department?

A new prospective cohort study by Hans Kirkegaard and colleagues from Aarhus University Hospital explores the clinical value of WHODAS 2.0 as a tool for assessing disability and predicting outcomes in older patients.

🔍 Key findings:
• Higher disability scores in mobility and self-care were associated with increased risk of readmission within 26 weeks
• A mobility score ≥31 was particularly linked to higher risk
• Patients showed significant improvement in functioning over time after discharge
• WHODAS 2.0 may be a useful tool to support clinical decision-making and targeted rehabilitation

📊 These findings highlight the importance of assessing functional status and not just medical diagnoses when planning discharge and follow-up care.

📖 Read the full article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197457226002247?via%3Dihub

20/04/2026

🤝 Strengthening Danish-Austrian collaboration in Emergency Medicine 🇩🇰🇦🇹

Researchers from our centre were recently represented at the 12th Austrian Emergency Medicine Congress (Notfallmedizin 2026), organised by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Notfallmedizin (AGN) in Graz.

We are proud to highlight
🔹 Johannes Wittig, co-organiser and speaker, presenting “Knowledge gaps and research priorities” in a session on the recently published ERC Guidelines 2025.

🔹 Stig Holm Ovesen, invited speaker, presenting “POCUS: The peak of emergency medicine imaging?”

Their contributions reflect key research areas within our centre, from shaping future research priorities in resuscitation to advancing point-of-care ultrasound in clinical practice.

🌍 Participation in international congresses like this is essential for strengthening collaboration and ensuring that Danish emergency medicine research continues to contribute to important developments across Europe.

Thank you to the AGN and all participants for an inspiring congress and strong scientific programme. We look forward to continued collaboration across borders.

13/04/2026

📢 New publication from the Research Center for Emergency Medicine: What is the role of volume therapy during and after cardiac arrest?

A new systematic review and meta-analysis conducted on behalf of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Advanced Life Support (ALS) Task Force brings together the current evidence on volume therapy during and after cardiac arrest.

🧠 The systematic review synthesized evidence from 710,118 patients across 14 randomized trials and 44 observational studies examining intravascular volume therapy during and after cardiac arrest.

So, what did we learn?

👉 No randomized trials have compared volume therapy vs. no volume therapy during CPR
👉 No clear benefit of one volume therapy strategy over another across clinical settings
👉 Certainty of evidence remains low to very low

💡 In short:
We still don’t know whether volume therapy during or after cardiac arrest improves outcomes.

More high-quality randomized trials are needed to inform clinical practice.

The full-text publication is available in the open access journal Resuscitation Plus: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2026.101300

Author group: First author Johannes Wittig from the Research Center for Emergency Medicine, senior author Mathias Johan Holmberg, Asger Granfeldt, Marie K. Jessen, Lars W. Andersen from Health - Aarhus University and Aarhus Universitetshospital together with international collaborators Shinichiro Ohshimo, Anders Aneman, Carrie Kah-Lai Leong, Brian J. O’Neil, Yew Woon Chia, Jacqueline Eleonora Ek and Peter P**l.

10/04/2026

🎉 New publication from the Research Center for Emergency Medicine!

We are proud to share that our colleague Nanna Fauerholdt Skov has just published an important study in International Emergency Nursing 👏

📚The study explores what emergency nursing actually entails in a Danish context, an area that has previously been underexplored. Through focus group interviews with nurses from four Danish emergency departments, the study provides unique insights into everyday practice, complexity, and the many roles of emergency nurses.

🔍 Three key themes emerge:
• Clinical assessment and response
• Communication and relational care
• Coordination and system navigation

The findings highlight that emergency nursing extends far beyond clinical procedures. It is an integrated practice where clinical expertise, relational care, and system level coordination are all essential to ensuring patient safety and high quality care

This study contributes important knowledge at a time when emergency nursing has recently been established as a specialty in Denmark, emphasizing the need for clearer role definitions, education development, and a stronger professional identity.

Congratulations to Nanna and the entire research team on this great achievement 🙌

Read the study here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755599X26000662

07/04/2026

🩺 New research in the field of ultrasound in emergency medicine

We are pleased to share that Stig Holm Ovesen and Jesper Weile from RECEM have published two articles, both based on the same large randomized controlled trial investigating point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in emergency department patients with dyspnea.

🔍 In the main trial, including 674 patients across 10 Danish emergency departments, a POCUS driven diagnostic pathway did not change the proportion of patients discharged within 24 hours or the overall hospital length of stay compared with standard care.

💡 In a preplanned substudy, the use of POCUS was associated with higher early diagnostic certainty, reflected in higher estimated probability of the leading diagnosis and greater agreement between initial diagnostic assessments. This difference was not present at the time of final diagnosis.

Together, these findings highlight an important perspective:

POCUS may influence early diagnostic reasoning and confidence, while not necessarily translating into differences in patient-centered outcomes such as length of stay.

📄 Read the articles:
https://publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/67/3/2500070

https://journals.lww.com/euro-emergencymed/abstract/9900/effect_of_a_point_of_care_ultrasound_driven.230.aspx

This study was funded by the Central Denmark Region, Frimodt-Heineke Foundation, Johan Schrøders Foundation and Riisfort Foundation. The funding agencies had no role in designing or executing the study or in interpreting, writing, or submitting the manuscript.

20/03/2026

🚑 Nearly 1 in 5 strokes are initially missed – why does it happen?

A new study from Aarhus University Hospital highlights important gaps in prehospital stroke recognition and who is most at risk.

🔍 Key findings:

Nearly 20% of confirmed stroke patients were not identified as stroke in the prehospital phase

Missed strokes were more often seen in older patients, women, and individuals living alone

These patients frequently presented with non-classic symptoms, including impaired consciousness, visual disturbances, and aphasia

💡 Missed stroke status was associated with a more than threefold lower rate of reperfusion therapy, indicating a substantial disparity in treatment

⚠️ The findings highlight that stroke triage cannot rely on motor symptoms alone. Greater awareness of atypical presentations, and patient context, is essential.

📝 The work was led by Martin Faurholdt Gude and Rolf A. Blauenfeldt, with contributions from fellow RECEM researchers Line Bilgrav Nisgaard and Marianne Lisby, alongside collaborators from Aarhus University Hospital.

📖 Read the full article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41654812/

09/03/2026

🚨 Publication alert: Barriers during resuscitation are linked to lower chest compression quality

Our former master’s students Freia Agervig, Amalie Rosale Gedde, and Anna Vang Østergård have just published an exciting new study in the journal Resuscitation.

🫀 About the study
In a study conducted in the Central Denmark Region, researchers linked 873 post-arrest surveys from in-hospital cardiac arrest teams with defibrillator data to explore how barriers during resuscitation may affect CPR quality.

🔎 Key findings
• Barriers were common and reported in 42.5% of cases
• The presence of barriers was associated with significantly lower odds of achieving a chest compression fraction (CCF) ≥80%
• Communication barriers appeared to be the main driver of associations with chest compression quality metrics

🗣️ Why it matters
This study identifies specific and modifiable barriers that may impact performance during real-world cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The findings highlight the importance of contextualized, in-situ training, which could help teams recognize and overcome barriers during cardiac arrest management.

👏 The study was conducted with an international team of researchers and supervised by Johannes Wittig, Bo Løfgren, and Kasper G. Lauridsen. Congratulations to the team!

📖 Read the full open-access article:
https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(26)00076-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

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04/03/2026

🚑 Midterm Symposium: In-Hospital Resuscitation Training

Join us on 15 April 2026 at Aarhus University Hospital for a full-day symposium on in-hospital resuscitation training, held in collaboration with CfA and Danish Cardiovascular Academy.

We bring together leading researchers and clinicians to discuss the latest evidence, ERC Guidelines 2025, skill transfer from simulation to clinical practice, and future CPR training strategies.

📍 Aarhus University Hospital
🗓 15 April 2026
🕘 09:30–16:30
⏳ Registration deadline: 5 April 2026

Register here: https://dcacademy.dk/display/artikel/midterm-symposium-in-hospital-resuscitation-training

04/02/2026

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18/12/2025

🎉A great way to end the year!✨

We are proud to share that five researchers from our centre have recently been awarded external funding 🔬

💰 600.000 DKK from the Health Research Foundation of Central Denmark Region and 387.000 DKK from Helsefonden to the research programme Right Child Care, led by Claus Sixtus Jensen. The funding supports the PhD project “Promoting the RIGHT CHILD Care: Adapting the ISupport Standards and Tools in Danish Paediatric Care”👶📚, carried out by Maria Schiønning Olsen

💰 719.000 DKK from AUFF to Marianne Lisby and the project group consisting of civil society actors (Social Health), healthcare professionals (Emergency Department, AUH), and researchers (Center for Emergency Research, AUH/AU, Department of Political Science, AU) for a feasibility study on whether voluntary social work increase the benefits of the healthcare system for vulnerable citizens 🏥. PI of the project is Morten Jakobsen from the Department of Political Science, AU

💰 477.800 DKK from the Health Research Foundation of Central Denmark Region to Sara Viskum Leth for her PhD project on patients with mental disorders in the somatic healthcare system 🧠, carried out in collaboration with TVÆRSPOR and as part of the CAAIR (Center of Applied AI Research and Innovation) program

💰 31.000 DKK from Oda og Hans Svenningsens Fond to Heidi Brinkmann Larsen and her project group for a pilot study on Early Detection of Inherited Cardiomyopathy in the Emergency Department 🩺

💰 25.000 DKK from Fabrikant Karl G. Andersens (Anderssons) Fond to Anna Sommer Harrits for her Research Year Project on the association between chest compression pause duration for ventilations and ventilation success during in-hospital cardiac arrest ❤️💨

These grants will support exciting new research and strengthen our efforts to generate knowledge and impact across multiple fields 🔍

We are very grateful to the funding bodies for their trust and support 🙏💙

With this, we wish everyone a Merry Christmas🎄and a Happy New Year 🎆

We look forward to sharing more about our projects and research in the year to come ✨

14/11/2025

🌍 Presentation at the European Resuscitation Congress 2025 – Rotterdam

👨‍⚕️Magnus Brøgger presented his study at the European Resuscitation Council Congress 2025 in Rotterdam, exploring how chest compression skills learned on a simulation skill station transfer to real in-hospital cardiac arrest scenarios.

🔍 The findings revealed that this transfer is limited, shedding light on why clinical CPR quality still lags behind in hospitals and emphasizing the need to rethink how we train healthcare professionals in resuscitation.

💬Presenting these results at Resuscitation 2025 was a great experience and an inspiring opportunity to share ideas and learn from dedicated researchers and clinicians from across the world.🌎

🤝 This work was carried out in collaboration with Johannes Wittig, Bo Løfgren, Christian Autenrieth, Dung Nguyen, Kristian Krogh, and Kasper G. Lauridsen

12/11/2025

🌟 Sandbjerg 2025 🌟

🏥We had the pleasure of hosting this year’s Sandbjerg Research Symposium on Acute and Emergency Care, with broad participation from leaders, clinicians, researchers, and students across all regional hospitals, Aarhus University Hospital, the Prehospital Unit, and the Research Unit for General Practice.

💡The main theme was Patient and Public Involvement, featuring inspiring presentations and interactive workshops that encouraged discussions, reflections, and new perspectives on involving patients and the public in emergency care research.

📊We also had a series of exciting project presentations and a lively fireside discussion on future research directions, and of course, social activities and a shared dinner to strengthen collaboration and networking across the region.

🙏 A big thank you to those who presented their interesting work and projects:
Ronja Leth Larsen, Tobias Rygaard Kristiansen, Thea Kjærsgaard Mortensen, Kasper Hoberg von Benzon, Charlotte Hald, Sandra Thun Langsted, Stig Holm Ovesen, Josephine Eleonora Hou Søhoel, Dung Nguyen Riis, Heidi Brinkmann Larsen, Malik Kalmriz, Gitte Boier Tygesen

☀️And to top it all off, Sandbjerg Gods showed itself from its very best side in the autumn sunshine.

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