Nielsen, Vibe Maria Laden http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2838-9612
Søvsø, Morten Breinholt http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3156-5595
Kløjgård, Torben Anders
Skals, Regitze Gyldenholm http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2560-4487
Corfield, Alasdair Ross http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0878-7867
Bender, Lars
Lossius, Hans Morten
Mikkelsen, Søren http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5187-7027
Christensen, Erika Frischknecht http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-9694
Funding for this research was provided by:
Danish Air Ambulance Research Foundation (-)
Article History
Received: 2 September 2022
Accepted: 4 January 2023
First Online: 14 January 2023
Declarations
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: There was no collection or analysis of any biological material and no interventions were introduced on patient level. The North Denmark Region Ethics Committee reviewed the study and granted an exemption from formal ethics approval (11 March 2020). The patients who were eligible for this study and their caregivers would likely be in a state of either physical or mental stress at the time of inclusion. Combined with the potential urgency of the medical condition, this caused the researchers to apply for a waiver of informed consent to access their medical records from each individual patient. Consequently, permission to collect, store and publish outcome data from patient medical records according to the General Data Protection Regulation and the Danish Health Care Act was granted by The North Denmark Region delegated by the Danish National Health Authorities (id nos. 2020–100 and 2020–027132 and supplement 2022-011291).
: Not applicable.
: EFC and SM are members of the Danish Air Ambulance research committee mentioned in the Funding paragraph. However, neither of them were parties to the decision to support the grant application from VMLN. HML is the Editor-in-Chief and EFC is an advisory board member of the <i>Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine</i>, which is the official journal of the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation where HML is also the secretary-general. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.