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In Sweden, previous medical research of these services are lacking. The aim of the study is to describe Swedish mountain rescue missions as a basis for future studies, public education, resource allocation, and rescuer training.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Retrospective analysis of all mission reports in the national Swedish Police Registry on Mountain Rescue 2018\u20132022 (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20091543). Outcome measures were frequencies and characteristics of missions, casualties, fatalities, traumatic injuries, medical conditions, and incident mechanisms.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>J\u00e4mtland county had the highest proportion of missions (38%), followed by Norrbotten county (36%). 2% of missions involved\u2009\u2265\u20094 casualties, and 44% involved\u2009\u2265\u20094 mountain rescuers. Helicopter use was recorded in 59% of missions. Non-Swedish citizens were rescued in 12% of missions. 37% of casualties were females. 14% of casualties were \u2265\u200966 or \u2264\u200912 years of age. Of a total 39 fatalities, cardiac event (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200914) was the most frequent cause of death, followed by trauma (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200910) and drowning (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20098). There was one avalanche fatality. 8 fatalities were related to snowmobiling, and of the total 1543 missions, 309 (20%) were addressing snowmobiling incidents. Of non-fatal casualties, 431 involved a medical condition, of which 90 (21%) suffered hypothermia and 73 (17%) cardiovascular illness.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>These baseline data suggest snowmobiling, cardiac events, drownings, multi-casualty incidents, and backcountry internal medicine merit future study and intervention.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13049-024-01210-4","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,25]],"date-time":"2024-04-25T14:03:01Z","timestamp":1714053781000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A retrospective analysis of mission reports in the national Swedish Police Registry on mountain rescue 2018\u20132022: here be snowmobiles"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"32","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3755-5507","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anton","family":"Westman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Johanna","family":"Bj\u00f6rnstig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"1210_CR1","unstructured":"Consensus Guidelines on Mountain Emergency Medicine and Risk Reduction. \u00b7 ICAR \u2013 International Commission for Alpine Rescue [Internet]. 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