First Aid by Laypersons - Effect on Mortality and Length of Stay

NCT ID: NCT03191279

Last Updated: 2017-06-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 1400 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2021-08-31

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.

Conditions

Wounds and Injury; First Aid; Bystander; Trauma

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

First aid correct

Patient has received first aid according to local guidelines for all indicated first aid measures from bystanders on scene of accident when the first ambulance arrives

First aid

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Open airway (head tilt, chin lift), recovery position, staunch of bleeding, prevention of hypothermia, cooling of burn, CPR

First aid attempted

Bystanders have attempted first aid for indicated first aid measures, but measures have been incorrectly performed according to local guidelines

First aid

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Open airway (head tilt, chin lift), recovery position, staunch of bleeding, prevention of hypothermia, cooling of burn, CPR

No first aid

Indicated first aid measures have not been carried out when the first ambulance arrives on scene

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

First aid

Open airway (head tilt, chin lift), recovery position, staunch of bleeding, prevention of hypothermia, cooling of burn, CPR

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All emergency response calls to trauma (drownings and hangings included)

Exclusion Criteria

• No injury to patient
• Non-traumatic condition
• Poisonings

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University Hospital of North Norway

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Norsk Folkehjelp

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Nasjonal kompetansetjeneste for traumatologi (NKT-Traume)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Tromso

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

UNN Tromsø

Tromsø, , Norway

Countries

Norway

Central Contacts

Håkon Kvåle Bakke, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

hakonkvalebakke@gmail.com

+4795182294

Facility Contacts

Håkon Bakke, MD, PhD

Role: primary

hakonkvalebakke@gmail.com

+4795182294

Other Identifiers

2016/1760

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id