AmbulaNCE Teletransmited PHOtography for Trauma REgulation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Trauma; Telemedicine
• Interventions: Other: Photography teletransmission; Other: No photo

• Registration Number: NCT04034797
• Lead Sponsor: Poitiers University Hospital

Brief Summary

Physicians in charge of medical regulation within French SAMU have to take difficult decisions regarding patient's orientation (in or out-of hospital care) but suffer from lack of information. Such information usually consist in a simple phone conversation without any visual information. Visual assesment of the situation would be of great help, especially for traumatized patients.

Private Ambulance societies all over territory in charge of SAMU 86 now work with teletransmission devices allowing photography transmission.

The objective of the study is to determine if routine use of teletransmitted photography help SAMU 86's physians for a better orientation of non-severe traumatized patients, especially by avoiding unnecessary transportations to Emergency Departments.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-03-27
• Study Start: 2019-04-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-07-24
• Study First Posted: 2019-07-26
• Status Verified: 2020-09
• Primary Completion: 2021-07-31
• Study Completion: 2021-07-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-02-18
• Last Update Posted: 2022-02-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 179

Inclusion Criteria

• Emergency call at SAMU for trauma issue
• Pre-hospital management by private ambulance equipped with teletransmission device

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe trauma with need of a pre-hospital emergency medical team
• Traffic accident
• Head trauma associated with anticoagulant therapy or platelet antiagregant therapy
• Pre-hospital management by firefighters

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Photo	Photography teletransmission	-
No photo	No photo	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Impact of Photography on patient orientation	1 - 2 hours	Number of patient dispatched anywhere else than the local hospital after ambulance assesement.; Either the patient was dispatched to a higher level hospital (i.e. if the local hospital doesn't provide surgical facility when the patient needs it) or he was leaved at home and oriented to a general practitioner.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Overtriage	10 days	To evaluate the number of patients initially oriented to in-hospital care when it wasn't necessary
Undertriage	10 days	To evaluate the number of patients initially oriented to out-of hospital care that needed to go to emergency department during following days

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU Poitiers; 🇫🇷 Poitiers, Aquitaine, France