Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury

Abdominal Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assesment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury Over a Two Year Period at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College and AaBET Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05538390
• Other study ID #: StPaulsHMMc
• Status: Completed
• Start date: September 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: June 10, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

This hospital-based cross-sectional study was done at SPHMMC and AaBET hospitals from January 2018 to December 2019.The study aimed to assess the pattern of abdominal injury at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) and Addis Ababa Burn, Emergency and Trauma (AaBET) hospital, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors.The collected data was entered and analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 25.0.

Description:

Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors. The questionnaire was categorized into socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, and address), clinical profile (triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management, and outcome (management, complication, disposition, and mortality). Completeness of data was checked by the principal investigator.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 165
• Est. completion date: June 10, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: May 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients who are diagnosed clinically to have abdominal trauma

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who died before diagnosis

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Abdominal Injuries
• Abdominal Trauma

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Ethiopia	St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College	Addis Ababa

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Ethiopia, 

References & Publications (7)

Abebe K, Bekele M, Tsehaye A, Lemmu B, Abebe E. Laparotomy for Abdominal Injury Indication & Outcome of patients at a Teaching Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiop J Health Sci. 2019 Jul;29(4):503-512. doi: 10.4314/ejhs.v29i4.12. — View Citation

AdejumoAA,ThairuY,EgentiN.Profile of abdominal trauma in federal teaching hospital, Gombe, North-east, Nigeria: A cross sectional study. Int J Innov Med Health Sci 2015; 4: 41-5

Adesanya AA, Afolabi IR, da Rocha-Afodu JT. Civilian abdominal gunshot wounds in Lagos. J R Coll Surg Edinb. 1998 Aug;43(4):230-4. — View Citation

Alastair, C.J., Pierre, J.G. Abdominal trauma. In: John M, Graeme D, Kevin OM, editors. Surgical Emergencies, 1st edition. Italy: Blackwell Science Ltd. 1999. 224-236

Bashah DT, Dachew BA, Tiruneh BT. Prevalence of injury and associated factors among patients visiting the Emergency Departments of Amhara Regional State Referral Hospitals, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC Emerg Med. 2015 Aug 25;15:20. doi: 10.1186/ — View Citation

Chalya PL, Mabula JB. Abdominal trauma experience over a two-year period at a tertiary hospital in north-western Tanzania: a prospective review of 396 cases. Tanzan J Health Res. 2013 Oct;15(4):230-9. — View Citation

Long MK, Vohra MK, Bonnette A, Parra PDV, Miller SK, Ayub E, Wang HE, Cardenas-Turanzas M, Gordon R, Ugalde IT, Allukian M, Smith HE. Focused assessment with sonography for trauma in predicting early surgical intervention in hemodynamically unstable child — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Pattern of Abdominal Injury	Frequency was analyzed in respective to socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, address), clinical profile(triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management and outcome (management, complication, disposition and mortality) in patients presented with Abdominal injury in the study period.	Over 2 years