Chest Pain, Circulatory Collapse, Diarrhea
Conditions
Keywords
in-flight emergency
Brief summary
The goal of this retrospective study is to describe emergency relevant illnesses occurring in airline passengers.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Ruhr University of Bochum
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
RETROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 100 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Men, women, adolescent, children and babies who have suffered from an emergency on board an European airline.
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| All cause mortality, cause of medical or surgical emergency while on aircraft | 5 years |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed