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Johan Herlitz is affiliated with Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden and has a research focus within the field of medicine, contributing extensively to emergency medicine and related subfields. The research work spans a substantial number of publications, emphasizing emergency and acute care studies, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, as well as trauma and injury epidemiology.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Medicine

Subfields within this domain cover:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Surgery
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Main research topics addressed are:

  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Herlitz include:

  • Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe - Results of the EuReCa TWO study, 2020, published in Resuscitation
  • European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Epidemiology of cardiac arrest in Europe, 2021, published in Resuscitation
  • Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest across the World: First report from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), 2020, published in Resuscitation
  • Shortening Ambulance Response Time Increases Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, 2020, published in Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Cardiac arrest in COVID-19: characteristics and outcomes of in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A report from the Swedish Registry for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, 2020, published in European Heart Journal

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Herlitz include:

  • Araz Rawshani
  • Christer Axelsson
  • Peter Lundgren
  • Carl Magnusson
  • Therese Djärv

Research papers have been published in various venues, with the most frequent including:

  • Resuscitation
  • BMC Emergency Medicine
  • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
  • Resuscitation Plus
  • European Heart Journal

Best Publications

  • Effect of metoprolol CR/XL in chronic heart failure: Metoprolol CR/XL Randomised Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)

    A. Hjalmarson;S. Goldstein;B. Fagerberg;H. Wedel

  • Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcome reports: update and simplification of the Utstein templates for resuscitation registries. A statement for healthcare professionals from a task force of the international liaison committee on resuscitation (American Heart Association, European Resuscitation Council, Australian Resuscitation Council, New Zealand Resuscitation Council, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa)

    Ian Jacobs;Vinay Nadkarni;Jan Bahr;Robert A. Berg

  • Indications for fibrinolytic therapy in suspected acute myocardial infarction : collaborative overview of early mortality and major morbidity results from all randomised trials of more than 1000 patients

    Johan Herlitz

  • Randomized trial of insulin-glucose infusion followed by subcutaneous insulin treatment in diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction (DIGAMI study): Effects on mortality at 1 year

    Klas Malmberg;Lars Rydén;Suad Efendic;Johan Herlitz

  • Effects of Controlled-Release Metoprolol on Total Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Well-being in Patients With Heart Failure: The Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)

    A. Hjalmarson;S. Goldstein;B. Fagerberg;H. Wedel

  • Intense metabolic control by means of insulin in patients with diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction (DIGAMI 2): effects on mortality and morbidity

    K Malmberg;Lars Rydén;H Wedel;K Birkeland

  • Effect on mortality of metoprolol in acute myocardial infarction. A double-blind randomised trial.

    Å Hjalmarson;Johan Herlitz;I Málek;L Rydén

  • Incidence of EMS-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe

    Christie Atwood;Mickey S. Eisenberg;Mickey S. Eisenberg;Johan Herlitz;Thomas D. Rea;Thomas D. Rea

  • Early Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

    Ingela Hasselqvist-Ax;Gabriel Riva;Johan Herlitz;Mårten Rosenqvist

  • N-Terminal Pro-B–Type Natriuretic Peptide and Long-Term Mortality in Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Torbjørn Omland;Anita Persson;Leong Ng;Russel O’Brien

  • EuReCa ONE-27 Nations, ONE Europe, ONE Registry A prospective one month analysis of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes in 27 countries in Europe

    Jan-Thorsten Gräsner;Rolf Lefering;Rudolph W. Koster;Siobhán Masterson

  • Metoprolol in acute myocardial infarction (MIAMI). A randomised placebo-controlled international trial

    Johan Herlitz;Å Hjalmarson

  • Effect of Positive Airway Pressure on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Coronary Artery Disease Patients with Nonsleepy Obstructive Sleep Apnea. The RICCADSA Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Yüksel Peker;Helena Glantz;Christine Eulenburg;Karl Wegscheider

  • Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe - results of the EuReCa TWO study

    Jan-Thorsten Gräsner;Jan Wnent;Johan Herlitz;Gavin D. Perkins

  • The problem of chronic refractory angina - Report from the ESC Joint Study Group on the Treatment of Refractory Angina

    C Mannheimer;P Camici;M R Chester;A Collins

  • Mechanical Chest Compressions and Simultaneous Defibrillation vs Conventional Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: The LINC Randomized Trial

    Sten Rubertsson;Erik Lindgren;David Smekal;Ollie Östlund

  • Task Force on the management of chest pain

    Leif Erhardt;Johan Herlitz;L. Bossaert;M. Halinen

  • Effect of Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients in Sweden

    Mikael Holmberg;Stig Holmberg;Johan Herlitz

  • European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021 : Epidemiology of cardiac arrest in Europe

    Jan Thorsten Gräsner;Johan Herlitz;Ingvild B.M. Tjelmeland;Jan Wnent

  • European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Executive summary.

    Gavin D. Perkins;Jan-Thorsen Gräsner;Federico Semeraro;Theresa Olasveengen

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Swedberg
Karl Swedberg University of Gothenburg
Russell V. Luepker
Russell V. Luepker University of Minnesota
Hans Wedel
Hans Wedel University of Gothenburg
Bertil Lindahl
Bertil Lindahl Uppsala University
Lars Wilhelmsen
Lars Wilhelmsen University of Gothenburg
Torbjørn Omland
Torbjørn Omland Akershus University Hospital
Lars Gullestad
Lars Gullestad Oslo University Hospital
Stephen S. Gottlieb
Stephen S. Gottlieb University of Maryland, Baltimore
John Kjekshus
John Kjekshus University of Oslo
Ezra A. Amsterdam
Ezra A. Amsterdam University of California, Davis

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