Serially Measured Lab Test (Procalcitonin levels) in Trauma Victims with Head Injury to Predict the Outcome.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- patients with traumatic injury admitted to the ICU at the JPNATC will be prospectively included in the study. Age more than 16yrs and survival for atleast 12 hours.
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/05/008466
- Lead Sponsor
- JPNA Trauma Centre AIIMS
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 186
all patients with traumatic injury admitted to the ICU at the JPNATC will be prospectively included in the study. Inclusion criteria will be survival for at least 12 hours. PCT will be monitored on day 1, 3 and 7 after trauma. The data collected during admission will be age, gender, type of accident (road traffic accident, bike accident, fall, and assault), chronic conditions if any, GCS, severity of trauma according to ISS, the SAPS II ( simplified acute physiology II) score and number of blood transfused within first 24 hours after trauma.
Multiple trauma patients without head injury and infants, children aged less than 16 years, patients with history of malignancy, previous or presently having sepsis or in state of septic shock.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Outcome at ICU discharge assessed using Glasgow outcome scale (GOS) / Glasgow coma scale (GCS) <br/ ><br>2. Outcome at 1 month postinjury GOS / GCS <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 1. Outcome at ICU discharge 2. Outcome at 1 month postinjury <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. length of stay in ICU from admission <br/ ><br>2. length of stay in hospital from admissionTimepoint: ICU admission time <br/ ><br>ICU discharge time <br/ ><br>Hospital admission time <br/ ><br>Hospital discharge time