Surgical and Medical Emergencies on Board of European Aircraft Carriers

NCT ID: NCT00713102

Last Updated: 2016-10-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 10189 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2008-08-31

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.

Conditions

Circulatory Collapse; Chest Pain; Diarrhea

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

1

The group includes 10189 patients with on board medical or surgical emergencies.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Men, women, adolescent, children and babies who have suffered from an emergency on board an European airline.

Exclusion Criteria

• None

• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Ruhr University of Bochum

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Michael Sand

Dr.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Benno Mann, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum

Michael Sand, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Locations

Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Countries

Germany

References

Sand M, Bechara FG, Sand D, Mann B. Surgical and medical emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective study of 10189 cases. Crit Care. 2009;13(1):R3. doi: 10.1186/cc7690. Epub 2009 Jan 20.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 19154581 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id