Surgical and Medical Emergencies on Board of European Aircraft Carriers

Diarrhea Clinical Trial

Official title:

Surgical and Medical Emergencies on Board of European Aircraft Carriers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00713102
• Other study ID #: 004
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 8, 2008
• Last updated: October 3, 2016
• Start date: January 2008
• Est. completion date: August 2008

Study information

• Verified date: October 2016
• Source: Ruhr University of Bochum
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Germany: Ethics Commission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this retrospective study is to describe emergency relevant illnesses occurring in airline passengers.

Description:

An epidemiologic database documenting medical and surgical emergencies across European airlines will provide access to data potentially valuable for further flight-epidemiological research. Data on medical emergencies / per rpk (revenue passenger kilometres) are sparse and often based on data from a single airline. While handling the data the regulations of the data protection act of the Ethic commission of the Ruhr-University Bochum are fully respected. As noted, evaluation of the data will be completely anonymized without any information regarding the airline or other details than the passengers illness.

Preview: The results of the study specified above will be submitted for publication in a peer review and Medline listed journal.

Study Design: Retrospective, epidemiological study for the evaluation of medical and surgical emergencies on board airliners.

Patients: In the context of a retrospective study approximately 20,000 patient data from 32 European airlines are collected and statistically evaluated.

Documentation: The direct documentation takes place through project responsible person into an electronic statistical data base.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10189
• Est. completion date: August 2008
• Est. primary completion date: August 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men, women, adolescent, children and babies who have suffered from an emergency on board an European airline.

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chest Pain
• Circulatory Collapse
• Diarrhea
• Emergencies
• Shock

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany	Bochum	NRW

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ruhr University of Bochum

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

References & Publications (1)

Sand M, Bechara FG, Sand D, Mann B. Surgical and medical emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective study of 10189 cases. Crit Care. 2009;13(1):R3. doi: 10.1186/cc7690. Epub 2009 Jan 20. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	All cause mortality, cause of medical or surgical emergency while on aircraft		5 years	Yes