Trauma Registration at St. Olavs Hospital 2000-2003

Trauma, Multiple Clinical Trial

Official title:

Mapping of Traumatized Patients Referred to St. Olavs Hospital in the Period 2000-2003-Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00184470
• Other study ID #: NTNU-Traume-1
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 3
• First received: September 15, 2005
• Last updated: April 18, 2008
• Start date: December 2004
• Est. completion date: January 2007

Study information

• Verified date: April 2008
• Source: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Norway: Norwegian Social Science Data Services
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

St. Olavs Hospital is a trauma referral center in the region of Midtnorge. Admitting trauma patients locally and those referred from hospitals in Nord-Trøndelag, Sør-Trøndelag and Møre-Romsdal.An active trauma team was defined in 1992, but it`s work has not been evaluated earlier. Prospective studies of these patients were established 1st of January 2004 at St. Olavs Hospital.

Description:

This mapping is a observational retrospective study of trauma patients admitted to St.Olavs Hospital from 2000 until 2003. Patient journals (electronic and paper), autopsy reports and the emergency medical respons systems (AMK) database have been reviwed. We are reviewing the local traumaepidemiology, traumateam performance, mechanisms of injury and the potenially avoidable deaths in trauma.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 1000
• Est. completion date: January 2007
• Est. primary completion date: June 2006
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Trauma team activation

• Motor vehicle crash with ejection

• Pedal cyclist, motorcyclist or pedestrian hit by vehicle >30 km/h

• Fall > 5 meters

• Fatality in same vehicle

• Interhospital trauma transfer within 24 hrs

• Injury to two or more body regions

• Fracture to two or more long bones

• Spinal cord injury

• Amputation of a limb

• Penetrating injury to head, neck, torso or proximal limb

Exclusion Criteria:

• Burns

• Strangulations

Study Design

Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Injuries, Multiple
• Multiple Trauma
• Norway/Epidemiology
• Trauma Centers/Statistics & Numerical Data
• Trauma Severity Indices
• Trauma, Multiple
• Wounds and Injuries

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	St. Olavs Hospital