Prehospital eFAST performance: a retrospective review of prospectively collected data

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Trauma; Emergency medicine - Resuscitation; Public Health - Health service research; Injuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618001973202
• Lead Sponsor: SW Ambulance (Greater Sydney Area HEMS)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-12-06
• Study Completion: 2020-02-17
• Last Update Posted: 23 March 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 411

Inclusion Criteria

Adults (aged greater than or equal to 16 years) with a reported traumatic mechanism of injury.
- Prehospital contact with GSA-HEMS physician-paramedic team.
- Prehospital eFAST ultrasound recorded in AirMaestro database.
- Transported to Liverpool or Westmead Major Trauma Centres in NSW.
- CT scan or surgery within four hours of hospital arrival.
- ISS greater than or equal to 12.

Exclusion Criteria

- Patients who died prior to arriving at the destination hospital
- Patients who did not undergo definitive imaging (eFAST, CT) or undergo
surgery

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The accuracy of the prehospital eFAST scan interpretation for intraperitoneal free fluid and pneumothorax against either CT imaging of chest/abdomen or intraoperative findings within four hours of hospital arrival as measured by McNemar’s test.[4 hours post-arrival to hospital]