The Effect of Different Emergency Medical Systems on the Prognosis of Traumatic Brain Injury - a Prospective Study

The Differences Between Out-of-hospital Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Treatment in a Physician-staffed Versus Paramedic-staffed Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Unit and Its Effect on Patient Prognosis

Status

Suspended

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01571375

Enrollment

400

Registered

2012-04-05

Start date

2012-06-30

Completion date

2020-12-31

Last updated

2019-09-23

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Conditions

Traumatic Brain Injury

Keywords

Traumatic Brain Injury, HEMS, Out-of-hospital, Finland

Brief summary

The Aim of the Study is to Measure the Effect of Finnish Physician-staffed EMS Unit Treatment Methods on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Patient Prognosis. Physician-staffed HEMS unit was implemented to the EMS 2011. The aim of this study is to compare the results against a historical database to see if the implementation of a HEMS unit will improve the prognosis of TBI patients.

Detailed description

A Secondary Aim is to Identify Out-of-hospital Treatment Factors That Can be Influenced by Education and Protocols.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* TBI with CGS \< 9 or unconsciousness verified by an on-call neurosurgeon during admission to the hospital.

Exclusion criteria

* Multiple trauma

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Mortality	1 year

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Glasgow Outcome Score	1 year

Countries

Finland

Outcome results