Center for Akutforskning

🤝 Strengthening Danish-Austrian collaboration in Emergency Medicine 🇩🇰🇦🇹

Researchers from our centre were recently represented at the 12th Austrian Emergency Medicine Congress (Notfallmedizin 2026), organised by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Notfallmedizin (AGN) in Graz.

We are proud to highlight
🔹 Johannes Wittig, co-organiser and speaker, presenting “Knowledge gaps and research priorities” in a session on the recently published ERC Guidelines 2025.

🔹 Stig Holm Ovesen, invited speaker, presenting “POCUS: The peak of emergency medicine imaging?”

Their contributions reflect key research areas within our centre, from shaping future research priorities in resuscitation to advancing point-of-care ultrasound in clinical practice.

🌍 Participation in international congresses like this is essential for strengthening collaboration and ensuring that Danish emergency medicine research continues to contribute to important developments across Europe.

Thank you to the AGN and all participants for an inspiring congress and strong scientific programme. We look forward to continued collaboration across borders.

🩺 New research in the field of ultrasound in emergency medicine

We are pleased to share that Stig Holm Ovesen and Jesper Weile from RECEM have published two articles, both based on the same large randomized controlled trial investigating point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in emergency department patients with dyspnea.

🔍 In the main trial, including 674 patients across 10 Danish emergency departments, a POCUS driven diagnostic pathway did not change the proportion of patients discharged within 24 hours or the overall hospital length of stay compared with standard care.

💡 In a preplanned substudy, the use of POCUS was associated with higher early diagnostic certainty, reflected in higher estimated probability of the leading diagnosis and greater agreement between initial diagnostic assessments. This difference was not present at the time of final diagnosis.

Together, these findings highlight an important perspective:

POCUS may influence early diagnostic reasoning and confidence, while not necessarily translating into differences in patient-centered outcomes such as length of stay.

📄 Read the articles:
https://publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/67/3/2500070

https://journals.lww.com/euro-emergencymed/abstract/9900/effect_of_a_point_of_care_ultrasound_driven.230.aspx

This study was funded by the Central Denmark Region, Frimodt-Heineke Foundation, Johan Schrøders Foundation and Riisfort Foundation. The funding agencies had no role in designing or executing the study or in interpreting, writing, or submitting the manuscript.

🌟 Sandbjerg 2025 🌟

🏥We had the pleasure of hosting this year’s Sandbjerg Research Symposium on Acute and Emergency Care, with broad participation from leaders, clinicians, researchers, and students across all regional hospitals, Aarhus University Hospital, the Prehospital Unit, and the Research Unit for General Practice.

💡The main theme was Patient and Public Involvement, featuring inspiring presentations and interactive workshops that encouraged discussions, reflections, and new perspectives on involving patients and the public in emergency care research.

📊We also had a series of exciting project presentations and a lively fireside discussion on future research directions, and of course, social activities and a shared dinner to strengthen collaboration and networking across the region.

🙏 A big thank you to those who presented their interesting work and projects:
Ronja Leth Larsen, Tobias Rygaard Kristiansen, Thea Kjærsgaard Mortensen, Kasper Hoberg von Benzon, Charlotte Hald, Sandra Thun Langsted, Stig Holm Ovesen, Josephine Eleonora Hou Søhoel, Dung Nguyen Riis, Heidi Brinkmann Larsen, Malik Kalmriz, Gitte Boier Tygesen

☀️And to top it all off, Sandbjerg Gods showed itself from its very best side in the autumn sunshine.