Mobile Transmission of Prehospital Vital Signs to the Emergency Department

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Telemedicine; Triage; Emergency Medical Service

• Registration Number: NCT02090452
• Lead Sponsor: University of Aarhus

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine if real time transmission of vital signs, ECG and chat communication between the prehospital ambulances and the emergency department has an effect on patient mortality, ICU admission, hospitalization time, time to doctor, time to treatment and time to diagnostics

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-06
• Study First Submitted: 2014-02-20
• Primary Completion: 2014-03
• Study Completion: 2014-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-03-14
• Study First Posted: 2014-03-18
• Status Verified: 2014-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-04-23
• Last Update Posted: 2014-04-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 250

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients transported with ambulance to the emergency department

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Exclusion Criteria

• None

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to physician	Time from arrival to first patient-physician contact, assessed up to 36 months	Time from the patient arrival registered in the patients' logistics system (Cetrea) to registered first patient/physician contact registered in the same patients logistics system.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
All cause mortality	30 days, assessed up to 36 months
Number of ICU admissions	During present hospitalization, assessed up to 36 months
Time to treatment	Time from arrival to administration of first iv. antibiotics, assessed up to 36 months	Time from the patient arrival registered in the patients' logistics system (Cetrea) to first administered iv antibiotics registered in the patient's hospital record
Time to x-ray	Time form arrival at the emergency department to completion of x-ray requisition form, assessed up to 36 months	Time from the patient arrival registered in the patients' logistics system (Cetrea) to completion of x-ray requisition form registered in the radiologic logistics system (Kodak RIS, 2010 edition)
Time to ICU	Time from arrival to admission to the ICU, assessed up to 36 months	Time from the patient arrival registered in the patients' logistics system (Cetrea) to time of admission to the ICU registered in the patient's hospital record. .

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Horsens Regional Hospital, Central Region Denmark; 🇩🇰 Horsens, Denmark

Responce A/S; 🇩🇰 Horsens, Denmark

Prehospital Emergency Medical Services, Aarhus, Central Denmark Region; 🇩🇰 Aarhus N, Denmark