Scientific publications

• Type-specific whole blood still has a role in the era of low titer O universal donor transfusion for severe trauma hemorrhage (2024)
• In vitro quality and hemostatic function of cold-stored CPDA-1 whole blood after repeated transient exposure to 28°C storage temperature (2022)
• Whole blood transfusion and paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria meet again: Minor incompatibility, major trouble (2022)
• Effect of leukoreduction and temperature on risk of bacterial growth in CPDA-1 whole blood: A study of Escherichia coli (2021)
• Re-introducing whole blood for transfusion: considerations for blood providers (2021)
• Cold-stored leukoreduced CPDA-1 whole blood: in vitro quality and hemostatic properties (2020)
• Preparation of leukoreduced whole blood for transfusion in austere environments; effects of forced filtration, storage agitation, and high temperatures on hemostatic function(2018)
• Whole Blood Transfusion (2018)
• Whole blood for hemostatic resuscitation of major bleeding (2016)
• Coagulation function of stored whole blood is preserved for 14 days in austere conditions: A ROTEM feasibility study during a Norwegian antipiracy mission and comparison to equal ratio reconstituted blood (2015)
• Comparison of in vitro responses to fresh whole blood and reconstituted whole blood after collagen stimulation (2014)
• Low titer group O whole blood in emergency situations (2014)  

• Training of medical students in the use of emergency whole blood collection and transfusion in the framework of a civilian walking blood (2023)
• Civilian walking blood bank emergency preparedness plan (2021)
• How do I get an emergency civilian walking blood bank running? (2019)
• Staff officers as blood suppliers: Effects of repeated donations and autologous reinfusions of untransfused units (2018)
• Immediate effects of blood donation on physical and cognitive performance-A randomized controlled double-blinded trial (2018)
• Making whole blood available in austere medical environments: donor performance and safety (2016)
• A proposed field emergency donor panel questionnaire and triage tool (2016)
• Emergency whole-blood use in the field: a simplified protocol for collection and transfusion (2014)
• Donor performance of combat readiness skills of special forces soldiers are maintained immediately after whole blood donation: a study to support the development of a prehospital fresh whole blood transfusion program (2013)
• Blood Far Forward--a whole blood research and training program for austere environments (2013)

• Cold-stored platelets for acute bleeding in cardiac surgical patients: a narrative review (2023)
• In vitro quality of cold and delayed cold-stored platelet concentrates from interim platelet units during storage for 21 days (2023)
• Implementation of a dual platelet inventory in a tertiary hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic enabling cold-stored apheresis platelets for treatment of actively bleeding patients (2022)
• Implementation of a dual platelet inventory in a tertiary hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic enabling cold-stored apheresis platelets for treatment of actively bleeding patients (2022)
• A Pilot Trial of Platelets Stored Cold versus at Room Temperature for Complex Cardiothoracic Surgery (2020)
• In vitro quality and platelet function of cold and delayed cold storage of apheresis platelet concentrates in platelet additive solution for 21 days (2019)
• Cold stored platelets in treatment of bleeding (2017)
• Cold-stored apheresis platelets in treatment of postoperative bleeding in cardiothoracic surgery (2016)
• Refrigerated platelets for the treatment of acute bleeding: a review of the literature and reexamination of current standards (2014)

• Current transfusion practice and need for new blood products to ensure blood supply for patients with major hemorrhage in Europe (2023)
• The Norwegian blood preparedness project: A whole blood program including civilian walking blood banks for early treatment of patients with life-threatening bleeding in municipal health care services, ambulance services, and rural hospitals (2022)
• Civilian walking blood bank emergency preparedness plan (2021)
• A whole blood based resuscitation strategy in civilian medical services: Experience from a Norwegian hospital in the period 2017-2020 (2021)
• Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply and use of blood for transfusion (2020)
• How do I implement a whole blood-based blood preparedness program in a small rural hospital? (2020)
• Implementing a patient blood management program in Norway: Where to start? (2016)

• Implementation of a low-titre whole blood transfusion program in a civilian helicopter emergency medical service (2022)
• Prehospital Whole Blood Transfusion Programs in Norway (2021)
• Implementation of a protocol forl prehospital transfusion of low-titer, leukocyte-depleted whole blood for civilian bleeding patients (2019)
• Damage Control Resuscitation (2018)
• Emergency sternal intraosseous access for warm fresh whole blood transfusion in damage control resuscitation (2018)
• Freeze dried plasma and fresh red blood cells for civilian prehospital hemorrhagic shock resuscitation (2015)
• Tactical Damage Control Resuscitation (2015)
• Implementation and execution of civilian remote damage control resuscitation programs (2014)  

• A review and analysis of outcomes in randomized clinical trials of plasma transfusion in patients with bleeding or for the prevention of bleeding: The BEST collaborative study (2024)
• Implementation of a low-titre whole blood transfusion program in a civilian helicopter emergency medical service (2022)
• Identifying critical DO2 with compensatory reserve during simulated hemorrhage in humans (2022)
• Prehospital Whole Blood Transfusion Programs in Norway (2021)
• Cold-stored whole blood in a Norwegian emergency helicopter service: an observational study on storage conditions and product quality (2020)
• International assessment of massive transfusion protocol contents and indications for activation (2019)
• Massive transfusion: changing practice in a single Norwegian centre 2002-2015 (2018)
• Hemorrhagic blood failure: Oxygen debt, coagulopathy, and endothelial damage (2017)
• Changes in self-efficacy, collective efficacy and patient outcome following interprofessional simulation training on postpartum haemorrhage (2017)
• "Blood failure" time to view blood as an organ: how oxygen debt contributes to blood failure and its implications for remote damage control resuscitation (2016)
• The lost art of whole blood transfusion in austere environments (2015)
• Use of Tranexamic Acid in Bleeding Combat Casualties (2015)
• Challenges and possibilities in forward resuscitation (2014)
• Whole blood: the future of traumatic hemorrhagic shock resuscitation (2014)
• Is there a place for crystalloids and colloids in remote damage control resuscitation? (2014)  

Trauma Hemostasis and Oxygenation Research Network (THOR)