Analgesia in ÖAMTC Helicopter Emergency Service in Austria

Pain, Acute Clinical Trial

Official title:

Analgesia in ÖAMTC Helicopter Emergency Service in Austria: A Retrospective Analysis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03760302
• Other study ID #: AN2015-0068 347/4.13 381/5.19
• Status: Completed
• Start date: December 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 26, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: September 2021
• Source: Medical University Innsbruck
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

A sufficient analgesia in injured or sick people is the main goal of physicians treating a patient. In emergency medicine potent analgesia like ketamine or opioids are routinely used. It is unknown if there are any severe side effects or if the use is safe while in use in a Helicopter Emergency Service equipped with emergency physicians.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 35000
• Est. completion date: February 26, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: October 26, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Analgesia or use of hypnotics in ÖAMTC Air Ambulance Service in Austria 2000-2016

Exclusion Criteria:

• No analgesia, or analgesia use not in connection to ÖAMTC Air Ambulance Service. Analgesia given not in the period of examination (2000-2016)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Accident
• Acute Pain
• Analgesics
• Emergencies
• Field Physician Care
• Hypnotics
• Multiple Trauma
• Pain, Acute
• Safety
• Trauma, Multiple

Intervention

Other:
• analgesics
analgesics given to a patient treated from HEMS
• hypnotics
hypnotics given to a patient treated from HEMS

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Austria	General and Surgical Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck	Innsbruck

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medical University Innsbruck

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Austria, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Successful analgesia	Change in reported pain severity before and after treatment with analgesic. (Numeric Rating Scale, NRS, eleven-point scale reporting no pain=0, to maximum pain=10; 1-3 mild pain, 4-6 moderate pain, 7-10 severe pain)	2000-2016
Primary	Analgesic, drug type	Use of analgesic (n= type of analgesic)	2000-2016
Primary	Analgesic, frequency	Use of analgesic (n= frequency how often analgesic is used)	2000-2016
Primary	Analgesic, amount of analgesics	Use of analgesic (n= amount of analgesic used in mg or µg)	2000-2016
Secondary	Side effects	Type of side effect (respiratory arrest after use, hypoxemia, desaturation (SpO2<90%), dead)	2000-2016
Secondary	Frequency of side effects	Frequency of side effects (frequency of side effect/n=total number of analgesic use; very common>=1/10, common>=1/100 and<1/10, uncommon >=1/1000 and <1/100, rare >=1/10000 and <1/1000, very rare <1/10000)	2000-2016
Secondary	Severity of side effect	severity of side effect (0=none, 1=mild, 2=moderate, 3=severe, 4=potentially life threatening)	2000-2016