Surgical and Medical Emergencies on Board of European Aircraft Carriers

Completed

• Conditions: Chest Pain; Circulatory Collapse; Diarrhea

• Registration Number: NCT00713102
• Lead Sponsor: Ruhr University of Bochum

Brief Summary

The goal of this retrospective study is to describe emergency relevant illnesses occurring in airline passengers.

Detailed Description

An epidemiologic database documenting medical and surgical emergencies across European airlines will provide access to data potentially valuable for further flight-epidemiological research. Data on medical emergencies / per rpk (revenue passenger kilometres) are sparse and often based on data from a single airline. While handling the data the regulations of the data protection act of the Ethic commission of the Ruhr-University Bochum are fully respected. As noted, evaluation of the data will be completely anonymized without any information regarding the airline or other details than the passengers illness.

Preview: The results of the study specified above will be submitted for publication in a peer review and Medline listed journal.

Study Design: Retrospective, epidemiological study for the evaluation of medical and surgical emergencies on board airliners.

Patients: In the context of a retrospective study approximately 20,000 patient data from 32 European airlines are collected and statistically evaluated.

Documentation: The direct documentation takes place through project responsible person into an electronic statistical data base.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-01
• Study First Submitted: 2008-07-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-07-10
• Study First Posted: 2008-07-11
• Primary Completion: 2008-08
• Study Completion: 2008-08
• Status Verified: 2016-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-10-03
• Last Update Posted: 2016-10-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10189

Inclusion Criteria

• Men, women, adolescent, children and babies who have suffered from an emergency on board an European airline.

Exclusion Criteria

• None

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
All cause mortality, cause of medical or surgical emergency while on aircraft	5 years

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; 🇩🇪 Bochum, NRW, Germany