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Original Research

Efficacy and Safety of Methoxyflurane for Treatment of Acute Traumatic Pain by EMTs during Alpine Rescue Operations: The “PainDrop” Trial

Alexander Eggera Mountain Rescue Service, Austria;b Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Scheibbs, Scheibbs, Austria
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Tobias Hubera Mountain Rescue Service, Austria;c Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Vöcklabruck, Vöcklabruck, Austria
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Stefan Heschla Mountain Rescue Service, Austria;d Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Jakob Fiegla Mountain Rescue Service, Austria
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Josef Burgera Mountain Rescue Service, Austria;e Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Lienz, Lienz, Austria
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Helmut Trimmelf Department of Anaesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine and Karl Landsteiner Institute of Emergency Medicine, General Hospital of Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
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Wolfgang Schreiberg Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Maximilian Niederera Mountain Rescue Service, Austria;b Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Scheibbs, Scheibbs, Austria;g Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Katharina Tschernyb Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Scheibbs, Scheibbs, Austria;g Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Dominik Rothg Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 987-992 | Received 26 May 2022, Accepted 24 Jul 2022, Published online: 12 Aug 2022

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