The Natural History of Human Stingray Injuries

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-07-31

Study Completion Date

2016-09-30

Brief Summary

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Stingray injuries can be a hazard shared by many types of beachgoers. Stingrays often lie in the sand and when stepped on by the unsuspecting beachgoer their tail snaps foreword, resulting in a barbed stinger injecting venom into the victim. Little exists in the current literature on the natural history of stingray injuries. Most of the existing literature looks at the incidence of stings, and to a certain extent the demographic of people who seek care. To our knowledge no study has attempted to collect a more inclusive population of those people who are stung and follow them prospectively to determine the incidence of medical intervention, infection, etc.

This study aims to describe and quantify the natural history of stingray injuries and to better understand their time course and medical requirements. The study setting will be Seal Beach, which reports some of the greatest number of annual stingray injuries for any single beach on the pacific coast. Participants will be identified by the Seal Beach lifeguards who are believed to treat the majority of stingray injuries suffered at the beach. Eligible persons will be consented for participation over the phone by research personnel. If enrolled in the study they will receive a phone call by research personnel one week and one month after the injury that will collect information about the symptoms they have experienced and the medical interventions they have received, if any. This study is strictly observational in nature and will not involve any interventions on the part of study personnel or alter the manner in which or types of medical assessments or treatments.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Stingray Injury Marine Envenomation

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Enrolled participants

The targeted study population will include all people at Seal Beach who have been identified by the Seal Beach Lifeguards to have been stung by a jellyfish over the course of one year who are adults or children whose parent or guardian is present at the time of the injury. Children and pregnant women are included in the group.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* People at Seal Beach, California
* People identified by Life guard personnel as being stung by a stingray at Seal Beach
* Adults or
* Children whose parent or guardian are present at the time of the injury

Exclusion Criteria

* People who have previously been enrolled in the study
* People who the lifeguard believes were stung or bit by a marine organism other than a stingray or a terrestrial organism

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Responsible Party

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Robert J Katzer

Emergency Medical Services Fellow

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University of California, Irvine Medical Center

Orange, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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HS#2011-8620

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id