NCT01571375

The Effect of Different Emergency Medical Systems on the Prognosis of Traumatic Brain Injury - a Prospective Study

The Differences Between Out-of-hospital Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Treatment in a Physician-staffed Versus Paramedic-staffed Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Unit and Its Effect on Patient Prognosis

• Status: Suspended
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tampere University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Aim of the Study is to Measure the Effect of Finnish Physician-staffed EMS Unit Treatment Methods on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Patient Prognosis. Physician-staffed HEMS unit was implemented to the EMS 2011. The aim of this study is to compare the results against a historical database to see if the implementation of a HEMS unit will improve the prognosis of TBI patients.

Detailed description

A Secondary Aim is to Identify Out-of-hospital Treatment Factors That Can be Influenced by Education and Protocols.

Conditions

• Traumatic Brain Injury

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-06-01
• Primary completion: 2020-11-01
• Completion: 2020-12-01
• First posted: 2012-04-05
• Last updated: 2019-09-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland