Trauma Reception and Resuscitation - 'Time for a New Approach'

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Traumatic injury; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning; Trauma

• Registration Number: ISRCTN68866227
• Lead Sponsor: The Victorian Trauma Foundation (Australia)

Brief Summary

1. Fitzgerald, M, Dzuikas, L, Cameron, P, Mackenzie, C and Farrow, N (2005) Trauma Reception and Resuscitation. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2. Trauma Reception and Resuscitation Project - 'Time for a New Approach' Operational Summary for the Victorian Trauma Foundation Best Practice Program Grant. A/Professor Mark Fitzgerald Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred. 13 December 2004. (Unpublished work). 3. 2011 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21339436 (added 31/01/2019)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2006-01-06
• Study Completion: 2007-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 11 February 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1162

Inclusion Criteria

1162 test and control trauma cases presenting to the Trauma Centre of the Alfred Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria

Stable trauma patients (i.e. pulse rate <100/minute, mean arterial pressure [MAP] >70 mmHg, Hb >70, temperature >35 °C and <37.5 °C, SpO2 >92%, Glasgow Coma Score [GCS] >13) undergoing secondary transfer from another hospital, where trauma occurred >6 hours prior to arrival, will be excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> The primary benefits will be:<br> 1. The development of evidence-based algorithms for trauma resuscitation<br> 2. The development of real-time, computer aided, data collection during trauma resuscitation<br> 3. Testing the hypothesis that the introduction of real-time, computer-prompted algorithms will result in a measurable reduction in management errors associated with reception and resuscitation of major trauma patients<br> 4. Demonstrating that a reduction in management errors translates into a reduction in morbidity and mortality<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> The secondary benefits will be:<br> 1. Standardising, publishing and distributing resuscitation documentation, interventions and diagnoses<br> 2. Critical evaluation of the cost-benefit of trauma resuscitation video audit<br> 3. Rejuvenation of resuscitation research through the development of a standardised environment<br>