Trauma
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary objective of this study is to establish a data set that will be permissive of quality improvement studies/observations specific to life and limb salvage in comprisable extremity injuries.
Detailed description
Tourniquets are often overused. Direct pressure should be the first step in STB. Combat dressings allow for hands free pressure. These data could provide a foundation for pre-hospital process improvement studies. This data repository will serve as a means to aggregate and analyze best practices related to trauma patients with extremity injuries. Specific interest will be placed in best practices of the emergency medical service and trauma bay, use of tourniquets and compression bandages, ischemic injuries, and limb salvage.
Interventions
OTHERNon-Interventional (Registry)
Non-Interventional (Registry)
Sponsors
Methodist Health System
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Adult trauma patients; defined by the American College of Surgeons as individuals age: ≥16 years * Included in the MDMC trauma registry * Documented extremity injury
Exclusion criteria
* \<16 years old
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| establish a data set that will be permissive of quality improvement studies/observations specific to life and limb salvage in comprisable extremity injuries. | through study completion, up to 18 months | Trauma Registry will be queried for demographic information, admission dates, traumatic injury characteristics, inpatient outcomes, complications, consultations, resuscitation strategies, compression time to control bleeding, use of tourniquet and indications, discharge location, and mortality. Additional triage assessments, bleeding management, and in-patient timeline, will be abstracted from EPIC. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORConner McDaniel, MD
Methodist Heath System
Outcome results
None listed