First Aid by Laypersons - Effect on Mortality and Length of Stay

Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Førstehjelp Gjort av Lekfolk-effekt på dødelighet og behandlingsforløp (First Aid by Laypersons - Effect on Mortality and Length of Stay)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03191279
• Other study ID #: 2016/1760
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 3, 2017
• Last updated: June 15, 2017
• Start date: August 2018
• Est. completion date: August 2021

Study information

• Verified date: June 2017
• Source: University of Tromso
• Contact: Håkon Kvåle Bakke, MD, PhD
• Phone: +4795182294
• Email: hakonkvalebakke[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aims to assess the effect of first aid from bystanders on survival, admission length, and need of ICU-stay for trauma victims.

Description:

All ambulance services in Norway will be invited to participate. In the participating ambulance services, the personnel of first unit to reach the scene of accident for any emergency response to trauma will register what first aid measures (if any) are indicated and have been performed by the bystanders on the scene up til the point where the ambulance arrives. Hospital data for each case will be retrieved. Those patients who did receive correct first aid will then be compared to those patients who did not receive first aid, and those where first aid was attempted but not correct for differences in share of survivors, length of hospital stay, and need for admission to ICU.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 1400
• Est. completion date: August 2021
• Est. primary completion date: August 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All emergency response calls to trauma (drownings and hangings included)

Exclusion Criteria:

• No injury to patient

• Non-traumatic condition

• Poisonings

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bystander
• First Aid
• Trauma
• Wounds and Injuries
• Wounds and Injury

Intervention

Procedure:
• First aid
Open airway (head tilt, chin lift), recovery position, staunch of bleeding, prevention of hypothermia, cooling of burn, CPR

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	UNN Tromsø	Tromso

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Tromso	Nasjonal kompetansetjeneste for traumatologi (NKT-Traume), Norsk Folkehjelp, University Hospital of North Norway

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Whether patients received first aid from bystanders	If patients with indicated measures receiving first aid from bystanders, given for each measure and combined	At time of inclusion
Other	Whether first aid measures were indicated for the patient	If first aid measures was indicated, given for each measure and combined	At time of inclusion
Primary	Admission length	Length of hospital stay after injury, in days	3 months after inclusion
Primary	Survival	30-day survival, starting from day of injury	1 month after inclusion
Primary	Need of ICU stay	Whether patient is admitted to ICU during admission	3 months after inclusion
Secondary	Length of ICU stay	Length of ICU stay if patient was admitted to ICU, in days	3 months after inclusion