Paramedic research, 5 September 2026

2 new paramedic and prehospital papers from the 5 September 2026 scan.

How GPs decide to respond to trauma alarms

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine · Qualitative · Context only

Qualitative interview study of 20 Norwegian primary care doctors on how they decide whether to call out to acute trauma alarms from limited EMCC voice messages — despite the sparse information it remained a decisive factor, with experienced doctors using recognition-primed cues and weighing severity against travel distance and the risk of concurrent incidents.
Eight sepsis subgroups found, SENECA not replicated

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine · Cohort · Hypothesis-generating

Retrospective consensus clustering of 953 ED sepsis admissions at Oslo University Hospital could not replicate the four SENECA phenotypes, instead finding eight stable subgroups with more granular characteristics — and only 49% of patients meeting SENECA inclusion criteria fulfilled Sepsis-3, underlining sepsis heterogeneity and cohort-definition problems.