Pre-hospital Notification of Injured Patients Presenting to Trauma Centres in India

Launched by TERESA HOWARD · Aug 23, 2016

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ClinConnect Summary

This is a longitudinal prospective cohort study of injured patients being transported by ambulance to the major trauma centre study sites. In the pre-intervention phase, prospective data on patients will be collected on pre-hospital assessment, notification, in-hospital assessment, management and outcomes and recorded in a new tailored multi-hospital trauma registry. All injured patients arriving by ambulance and allocated to a red or yellow priority category will be eligible for inclusion. The intervention will be a pre-hospital notification application in the form of an Android program th...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion Criteria: All injured patients arriving by ambulance and allocated to a red (1st) or yellow (2nd) priority category will be eligible for inclusion. Data will be collected prospectively by trained data collectors positioned in the trauma centres.
• Retrospective inclusion will be continued for all screened patients presenting to any of the included hospitals with injury (including near-drowning) as the primary diagnosis and with at least one of the following criteria:
• • 1. Admission to hospital
• • 2. Death after triage but before admission
• • 3. Dead on arrival
• Exclusion criteria: Patients meeting screening criteria will be subsequently excluded if they meet any of the following criteria:
• • 1. Dead at scene
• • 2. Alive at triage but not admitted to hospital (discharged alive)
• • 3. Isolated poisoning
• • 4. Isolated burns
• • 5. Single digit finger or toe amputations (unless of the thumb or great toe), only