CT Change Management in Trauma Patients

NCT ID: NCT05138536

Last Updated: 2024-11-20

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

510 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-03-06

Study Completion Date

2020-03-06

Brief Summary

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In high-volume trauma centers, multi-slice CT scanners have become the routine imaging modality for screening trauma patients due to their speed and accuracy. In trauma patients with no known neurologic deficits, diagnostic CT is often obtained though it remains unclear whether this affects management of the patient \[1\]. With the growing cost of health care, a careful look at the benefit and cost of CT is needed to determine how to best utilize this modality in the evaluation of trauma patients.

HYPOTHESIS: In trauma patients with absence of neurologic defects, the addition of comprehensive CT does not change overall clinical management.

Detailed Description

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Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to determine the benefit of the CT scan in the clinical management or outcomes of the trauma patients with no neurologic deficits.

Primary Outcome: Percentage of trauma patients with no known neurologic deficits who underwent a CT, any clinically impactful CT findings.

Secondary Outcome: Percentage of benefits CT provides in clinical features, clinical outcomes, injury severity score, GCS, age, sex, ethnicity, cause of injury, mechanism of injury, hospital length of stay, operative vs. non-operative, discharge disposition, radilogy, pathology results and images, any additional morbidities, total cost, 30-day readmission rate, and morality. And when operation does occur, the types of operation and the resulting cost and length of stay.

Conditions

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Trauma Neurologic Deficits

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Pan-Computer Tomography

trauma centers use the pan-computed tomography (CT) scan (head, neck, chest, and abdomen/pelvis) for the evaluation of blunt trauma.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age ≥ 18-years-old
* No localizing neurologic defect
* Any cause or mechanism of injury
* Comprehensive CT obtained

Exclusion Criteria

• Any patients that are pregnant or breastfeeding
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Methodist Health System

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Joseph Amos, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Methodist Health System

Locations

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Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Dallas, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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024.TRA.2016.D

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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