Survey of Tourniquet Use in a Combat Support Hospital

Vascular Injury Clinical Trial

Official title:

Survey of Tourniquet Use in a Combat Support Hospital

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00517166
• Other study ID #: IRAQ 06-010
• Secondary ID: I.2006.175dt
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 14, 2007
• Last updated: December 19, 2011
• Start date: August 2006
• Est. completion date: March 2008

Study information

• Verified date: December 2011
• Source: United States Army Institute of Surgical Research
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Data will be collected on the type of tourniquet and circumstances of its use. Patients with penetrating extremity injury will have clinical and pre-clinical hospital data collected.

Description:

This is a performance improvement project that is a prospective observational cohort design with subgroup analyses. This project meets the criteria of research with its intent to publish. No data is generated and only existing data are used. No interventions are made and the comparisons will be with within subgroups in the cohort.

Aim 1. Describe the number of tourniquets which were appropriately used (wound required a tourniquet and tourniquet was placed properly) as assessed by treating physician

Aim 2 &3. Describe if limbs wounds with tourniquets were bleeding upon admission, resuscitation, and following tourniquet removal

Aim 4. Describe if mortality for the cohort of patients with tourniquets is different than the mortality predicted by various injury scoring systems

Aim 5. Compare patient outcomes between those in which a tourniquet was indicated but not used and those for whom a tourniquet was indicated and used

Aim 6. Determine if patients that received tourniquets for an extended time period exhibit any known tourniquet complications

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 584
• Est. completion date: March 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• penetrating extremity injury with tourniquet use

Exclusion Criteria:

• non penetrating extremity injury

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Vascular Injury
• Vascular System Injuries

Intervention

Device:
• CAT (Combat Arms Tourniquet)
device

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Iraq	Combat Support Hospital	Baghdad

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
United States Army Institute of Surgical Research

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Iraq,