Main publications

Books

  • Save Lives, Save Limbs. Life support for victims of mines, wars, and accidents. by Hans Husum, Mads Gilbert, Torben Wisborg. Available in English, Arabic, Farsi, Burmese, Khmer, Kurdish, Portuguese and Spanish.
  • War Surgery. Field Manual. By Hans Husum, Swee Chai Ang, Erik Fosse.

Scientific articles

Prehospital care and triage

 

Fosse E, Husum H: Surgery in Afghanistan: a light model for field surgery during war. Injury 1992; 23: 401 – 404.

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Husum H. Effects of early prehospital life support to war injured: the battle of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Prehosp Disast Med 1999; 14: 75 – 80.

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Husum H, Gilbert M, Wisborg T. Training prehospital trauma care in low-income countries: the “Village University” experience. Med Teach 2003; 25: 142 – 48.

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Husum H, Strada G. Injury Severity Score versus New Injury Severity Score for penetrating injuries. Prehosp Disast Med 2002; 17: 27 – 32.

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Husum H, Gilbert M, Wisborg T, Heng YV, Murad M. Rural prehospital trauma systems improve trauma outcome in low-income countries: a prospective study from North Iraq and Cambodia. J Trauma 2003; 55: 466 – 70.

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Husum H, Gilbert M, Wisborg T, Heng YV, Murad M. Landmine injuries: a study of 708 victims in North Iraq and Cambodia. Mil Med 2003; 168: 934 – 39.

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Husum H, Olsen T, Murad M, Heng YV, Wisborg T, Gilbert M. Preventing post-injury hypothermia during long prehospital evacuation. Prehosp Disast Med 2002; 17: 23 – 26.

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Husum H, Gilbert M, Wisborg T, Heng YV, Murad M. Respiratory rate as prehospital triage tool in rural trauma. J Trauma 2003; 55: 466 – 70.

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Husum H, Resell K, Vorren G, Heng YV, Murad M, Gilbert M, Wisborg T. Chronic pain in landmine accident survivors in Cambodia and Kurdistan. Soc Sci Med 2002; 55:1813 – 16.

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Hedelin H, Husum H, Mudhafar M, Edvardsen O. Trauma care in low-income countries--a collective concern in a village. Care of landmine injuries in North Iraqi countryside. (Article in Swedish: ”Traumavård i fattiga länder - en bys kollektiva angelägenhet. Omhändertagandet av minskadade på landsbygden i norra Irak”). Sv Läktid 2006; 7: 460 – 63.

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Edvardsen, O. Et nettverk av førstehjelpere i det minelagte Nord-Irak: et spørsmål om liv eller død. Thesis, Master Health Science. Tromso University, 2006.

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Wisborg T, Murad M, Edvardsen O, Brichman B. Life or death. Social impact of paramedics and first responders in land mine-infested villages in Northern Iraq. Rural Remote Hlth 2008; 8: 816.

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Wisborg T, Murad M, Edvardsen T, Husum H. Prehospital trauma system maturation and adaptation during eight years in a Low-Income Country. J Trauma. J Trauma 2008; 64(5):1342-1348.

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Postinjury Malaria

Husum H, Heger T, Sundet M. Postinjury malaria: a study of trauma victims in Cambodia. J Trauma 2002; 52: 259 – 66.  

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Sundet M, Heger T, Husum H. Postinjury malaria: a risk factor for wound infection and protracted recovery. Trop Med Int Health. 2004 Feb;9(2):238-42.

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Heger T, Sundet M, Heng YV, Rattana Y, Husum H. Postinjury malaria: experiences of doctors in Battambang Province, Cambodia. SEAsian J Trop Med 2005; 36: 811 – 15.

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Delivery Life Support

Chandy H, Steinholt M, Husum H. Delivery Life Support: chain-of-survival for complicated deliveries in rural Cambodia, a preliminary report. Nurs Hlth Sci 2007; 9; 263 – 269.

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Chandy H, Heng YV, Ol HS, Husum H. Comparing two survey methods for maternal and neonatal mortality in Cambodia. Women and Birth 2008; 21: 9-12.

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Trauma surgery

Heng YV, Davoung C, Husum H. Trauma surgery at District Hospitals: a controlled study of trauma training for rural non-graduate surgeons in Cambodia. J Prehosp Disast Med (accepted).

 

Tajsic N, Husum H. Reconstructive microsurgery can be done in low-resource settings: experiences from a wartime scenario. J Trauma (accepted).

 

Husum H, Edvardsen O. Poverty as Trauma: methodological problems when reality is nasty. In: Ingstad B, Eide B (ed). Disability and Poverty. (accepted)

 

Tajsic N, Winkel R, Husum H. Suralis flaps in management of post-injury osteomyelitis. Br J Plast Reconstr Surg (submitted).