NCT01730001

Early Versus Late Intubation Trial in Physician Manned Emergency Medical Services

A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Competent EARLY-intubation to LATE-intubation in Patients With Prehospital GCS < 9 and Short Transport Time to Hospital.

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study looks at advanced airway management in critically ill or injured patients treated by physician manned emergency medical services, comparing early (on-scene) intubation to late (emergency department) intubation.

Detailed description

The ELITE trial is a prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) to compare competent EARLY-intubation to LATE-intubation in patients with on-scene Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) \< 9 and short ambulance transport times (\< 20 min) to hospital. The study aims to establish if advanced airway management with endotracheal intubation (ETI) in the field by specially trained Emergency Medical Services (EMS) physicians - compared to endotracheal intubation (ETI) performed by physicians in the emergency department in the same group - improves outcome in terms of 30-day mortality, degree of disability at discharge, complications and length of hospital stay, and neurologic outcome at 6 months.

Conditions

• Trauma
• Craniocerebral Trauma
• Intracerebral Hemorrhage
• Seizures
• Unconsciousness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Early Intubation
PROCEDURE	Late intubation

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-28
• Completion: 2017-03-28
• First posted: 2012-11-21
• Last updated: 2017-09-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Norway