Impact of replacing conventional emergency department diagnostic procedures by a single-pass whole body computed tomography (pan-scan) on the survival of patients with severe trauma
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Multiple and severe blunt traumaInjury, Occupational Diseases, PoisoningInjury, unspecified
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN35424832
- Lead Sponsor
- Emergency Hospital Berlin (Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin) (Germany)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 300
Inclusion Criteria
Consecutive men and women (no age restrictions) with suspected blunt multiple trauma directly transferred from the scene to the hospital and requiring resuscitation in the emergency department / trauma bay
Exclusion Criteria
Due to the retrospective nature of this analysis only patients with insufficient or lacking information in the hospital documentation system will be excluded from the analysis
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method All-cause in-hospital mortality
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. All-cause in-hospital mortality, adjusted for injury severity and other confounding / interaction variables identified by multivariable logistic regression analysis<br>2. Morbidity (i.e. inflammatory complications like lung failure [ARDS] multiple organ failure [MOF])<br>3. Emergency department time