Importance of Forces and Safety Features in Car Crash Multitrauma

Multiple Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Multitraumatized Patient. What is the Importance of Forces Involved and the Use of Safety Equipment for the Amount of Trauma to the Patient Inside the Vehicle.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00204204
• Other study ID #: 216-05-04273
• Secondary ID: 200500715-2
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 13, 2005
• Last updated: August 24, 2007
• Start date: January 2005
• Est. completion date: January 2006

Study information

• Verified date: August 2007
• Source: University of Oslo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Norway:National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The pupose of the study is a prospective evaluation of external and internal factors/causes of importance for the trauma and final outcome experienced by persons inside motor vehicles in serious car accidents. We hypothesise that there is an association between the use and function of safety features and the results for the patient and an association between material damage and the severity of injury.

Description:

We plan to study approximately 200 road accidents with multitraumatised patients and accidents with modern cars and severe material damage with little or moderate damage to persons inside the vehicle. A researcher will be alerted by the call centre (Norwegian 911-equivalent), move to the place of accident and take a pure observers role (unless ethically unacceptable due to lack of other health personnel). He will document the accident including use and condition of safety features, conditions inside the coupe, weather conditions, etc. Other available information on the vehicles, crashtests etc will be gathered from the manufacturer. All medical information will be gathered from the ambulance service, hospitals, pathology and forensic departments. Information from police and fire department will also be gathered.

Patient, next-of-kin, others invloved will be interviewed as appropriate in follow-up.

Four accident groups: Front-to-front or -object > 60 km/hour, same < 60 km/hour, car rolled over on road, car rolled over out-of-road. Factors: Age of vehicle, damage to coupe, cause of accident, on-scene time, initial evaluation by health personnel, injury severity scoring in hospital.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: January 2006
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with multiple trauma from severe motor vehicle accidents in Eastern Norway patients from motor vehicle accidents in Eastern Norway with severe material damage

Study Design

Observational Model: Defined Population, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Multiple Trauma

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Ulleval University Hospital	Oslo

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oslo	Health Region East, Norway, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Royal Department of Transportation, Ullevaal University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway,