Guttorm Brattebø

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Nasjonalt kompetansesenter for helsetjenestens kommunikasjonsberedskap (KoKom)

Kirurgisk serviceklinikk

Haukeland universitetssjukehus

Universitetet i Bergen

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Guttorm Brattebø er spesialist i anestesiologi, seksjonsoverlege, senterleder og professor.

Articles by Guttorm Brattebø

Use of ambulance services for patients with suspected stroke

Bjørn Jamtli,
Emil Iversen,
Håvard Wahl Kongsgård,
Bent Indredavik,
Guttorm Brattebø

14.01.2026: Emergency Medical Communication Centres (EMCCs) answer calls from the public to the medical emergency number 113, assess the need for urgent medical care and dispatch emergency services including ground ambulances, ambulance boats and air ambulance services (1). Rapid and accurate identification of...

Three waves in Bærum

Guttorm Brattebø

13.01.2022: Knowledge about the outcomes among COVID-19 patients admitted to a local hospital in the Oslo area provides key information preparing us for the next wave of coronavirus infections. In this issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Myrstad and colleagues present the course of...

When is ventilatory support necessary?

Guttorm Brattebø

17.08.2020: Perhaps we should be more reticent about providing invasive ventilatory support to COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory failure. The Spanish Flu, which wreaked havoc in 1918–19 and took some fifty million lives, was one of the world's most lethal pandemics (1). There have been many warnings...

Simulation-based team training works

Guttorm Brattebø,
Hege Langli Ersdal,
Torben Wisborg

09.12.2019: Training of interprofessional teams with the aid of simulation methods is used especially in preparation for medical emergencies. There is now good evidence of the importance of such training for patients. On 27 March 1977, the world's worst ever aviation disaster, which claimed the lives of 583...