Håkon Bjorheim Abrahamsen (born 1975) works as a trainee doctor at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, and is a PhD fellow in the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. His research project is based at the University of Bergen and studies human factors and patient safety in pre-hospital services, with particular focus on the air ambulance service in Norway. He has a solid interdisciplinary background as an engineer with specialisation in medical technology and cybernetics.

The author has completed the ICMJE form and declares the following conflicts of interest: The author is a scholar in a 50 per cent position in the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, and his research is fully financed by this institution. The author is employed in a 50 per cent clinical position at Stavanger University Hospital, and is working in the pre-hospital services at the air ambulance base in Stavanger as part of his clinical position.

Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

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Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

Stavanger University Hospital