AmbulaNCE Teletransmited PHOtography for Trauma REgulation

Trauma Clinical Trial

— NiCEPHORE  

Official title:

AmbulaNCE Teletransmited PHOtography for Trauma REgulation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04034797
• Other study ID #: 2019-A00137-50
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 29, 2019
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: September 2020
• Source: Poitiers University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Physicians in charge of medical regulation within French SAMU have to take difficult decisions regarding patient's orientation (in or out-of hospital care) but suffer from lack of information. Such information usually consist in a simple phone conversation without any visual information. Visual assesment of the situation would be of great help, especially for traumatized patients.

Private Ambulance societies all over territory in charge of SAMU 86 now work with teletransmission devices allowing photography transmission.

The objective of the study is to determine if routine use of teletransmitted photography help SAMU 86's physians for a better orientation of non-severe traumatized patients, especially by avoiding unnecessary transportations to Emergency Departments.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 179
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Emergency call at SAMU for trauma issue

• Pre-hospital management by private ambulance equipped with teletransmission device

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe trauma with need of a pre-hospital emergency medical team

• Traffic accident

• Head trauma associated with anticoagulant therapy or platelet antiagregant therapy

• Pre-hospital management by firefighters

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Telemedicine
• Trauma
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• Photography teletransmission
A photography of the trauma is teletransmitted to SAMU's physician
• No photo
Usual management without photography teletransmission

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU Poitiers	Poitiers	Aquitaine

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Poitiers University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Impact of Photography on patient orientation	Number of patient dispatched anywhere else than the local hospital after ambulance assesement.; Either the patient was dispatched to a higher level hospital (i.e. if the local hospital doesn't provide surgical facility when the patient needs it) or he was leaved at home and oriented to a general practitioner.	1 - 2 hours
Secondary	Undertriage	To evaluate the number of patients initially oriented to out-of hospital care that needed to go to emergency department during following days	10 days
Secondary	Overtriage	To evaluate the number of patients initially oriented to in-hospital care when it wasn't necessary	10 days