NCT02924805

Telemedical Versus Conventional Emergency Care of Hypertensive Emergencies

Telemedical Versus Conventional Emergency Care of Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 331 (actual)
• Sponsor: RWTH Aachen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Comparison of telemedical prehospital emergency care and conventional on-scene physician based care of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies. The adherence to current Guidelines should be researched.

Detailed description

Telemedically guided cases of hypertensive emergencies (april 2014 - March 2015) and urgencies are compared with a historical control group of conventional emergency medical service physician care on-scene for these scenarios. The historical control group is a time period prior to implementation of the telemedicine system and after a research project with a precursor telemedicine system. No telemedical support but only conventional on-scene EMS physician care was available (November 2013 - March 2014).

Conditions

• Hypertensive Emergency
• Hypertensive Urgency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Telemedical care	Telemedically guided care based on a standard operating procedure

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-11-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2016-10-05
• Last updated: 2016-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany