Bystander, First Aid, Trauma, Wounds and Injury
Conditions
Keywords
Wounds and injury, Trauma, First aid, Bystander, Laypersons
Brief 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.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
PROCEDUREFirst aid
Open airway (head tilt, chin lift), recovery position, staunch of bleeding, prevention of hypothermia, cooling of burn, CPR
Sponsors
University Hospital of North Norway
Norsk Folkehjelp
Nasjonal kompetansetjeneste for traumatologi (NKT-Traume)
University of Tromso
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* All emergency response calls to trauma (drownings and hangings included)
Exclusion criteria
* No injury to patient * Non-traumatic condition * Poisonings
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Admission length | 3 months after inclusion | Length of hospital stay after injury, in days |
| Survival | 1 month after inclusion | 30-day survival, starting from day of injury |
| Need of ICU stay | 3 months after inclusion | Whether patient is admitted to ICU during admission |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Length of ICU stay | 3 months after inclusion | Length of ICU stay if patient was admitted to ICU, in days |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Whether patients received first aid from bystanders | At time of inclusion | If patients with indicated measures receiving first aid from bystanders, given for each measure and combined |
| Whether first aid measures were indicated for the patient | At time of inclusion | If first aid measures was indicated, given for each measure and combined |
Countries
Norway
Contacts
Primary ContactHåkon Kvåle Bakke, MD, PhD
Outcome results
None listed