10-years Nationwide Alpine Accidents in Austria

Completed

• Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Arrest With Successful Resuscitation; Flight Accident; Alpine Accident; Frostbite; Lightning Injuries
• Interventions: Other: general and specific data

• Registration Number: NCT03405467
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University Innsbruck

Brief Summary

This observational study intends to analyze the characteristic of specific accidents happened in Austrian's mountainous regions. The mechanisms of accidents which are evaluated are lightning accidents, cardiopulmonary resuscitation with or without automated external defibrillator, frostbite injuries, accidents with flying vehicle (e.g. paraglider, hang-glider...).

Detailed Description

The data are collected retrospectively from the database of Austrian alpine police force. These data are analyzed. The information from this database (scene of accident, weather, daytime...) is compared to secondary data collected from the University Hospital of Innsbruck. The comparison of both databases was approved by the Austrian Data Protection Agency. The goal of the study is to give detailed information of circumstances leading to accident and give medical information of the patient's condition and his outcome.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-01-21
• Primary Completion: 2017-08-31
• Study Completion: 2017-08-31
• Study First Submitted: 2017-11-28
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-01-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-19
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-23
• Last Update Posted: 2018-01-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 500

Inclusion Criteria

• Person suffering the injury searched for;

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
lightning accident	general and specific data	patients suffered injuries due to lightning strike
cpr and aed	general and specific data	patients suffered cardiac arrest in alpine region treated with or without automated external defibrillatior
flight accident	general and specific data	patients suffered injuries due to use of a flying vehicle in mountainous regions.
frostbite	general and specific data	patients suffered injuries due to local hypothermia leading to frostbite injuries

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of persons suffered an accident in Alpine Mountains in Austria	2005-2015	The number of persons (n/year) which suffered one of the specified accidents.
Mortality of persons suffered an accident in Alpine Mountains in Austria	2005-2015	Number of persons deceased (deceased/n per year) which suffered one of the specified accidents.
Gender of persons suffered an accident in Alpine Mountains in Austria	2005-2015	Gender male/female or non specified which suffered one of the specified accidents.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Gender of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.	2005-2015	male/female, unspecified treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck
Number of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.	2005-2015	(n/year) treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck
Injury severity score (ISS) of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.	2005-2015	Injury severity score of suffered injury (ISS=AIS\*AIS)
Abbreviated Injury severity scale (AIS) of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.	2005-2015	Abreviated Injury severity scale of suffered injury (1-6 points; scale - minor, moderate, serious, severe, critial, maximum)
Type of evacuation and mortality	2005-2015	Type of evacuation (terrestrial, helicopter, combined terrestrial and helicopter) and the mortality for each group (deceased/n per year)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

General and Surgical Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck; 🇦🇹 Innsbruck, Austria