William Ottestad

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William Ottestad er spesialist i anestesiologi, forsker i traumatologi og overlege ved Luftambulanseavdelingen, Oslo universitetssykehus.

Articles by William Ottestad

COVID-19 with silent hypoxemia

William Ottestad,
Mari Seim,
Jens Otto Mæhlen

11.04.2020: Some COVID-19 patients deteriorate rapidly and seemingly without warning. This is also true for relatively young patients who were previously healthy or who had only minor underlying conditions. We describe one such case, in which a man in his sixties developed rapidly progressive respiratory...

Prehospital thoracotomy for traumatic cardiac arrest

William Ottestad,
Per B. Bredmose,
Per Olav Berve,
Halvard Stave,
Gunnar Farstad,
Lars Wik,
Mårten Sandberg

20.12.2016: Standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is ineffective for treating traumatic cardiac arrest. The mortality of patients whose vital signs fail at the scene of injury and are brought to hospital with ongoing CPR is almost 100 %. Prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy is a procedure that can...