NCT03191279

First Aid by Laypersons - Effect on Mortality and Length of Stay

Førstehjelp Gjort av Lekfolk-effekt på dødelighet og behandlingsforløp (First Aid by Laypersons - Effect on Mortality and Length of Stay)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Tromso · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to assess the effect of first aid from bystanders on survival, admission length, and need of ICU-stay for trauma victims.

Detailed description

All ambulance services in Norway will be invited to participate. In the participating ambulance services, the personnel of first unit to reach the scene of accident for any emergency response to trauma will register what first aid measures (if any) are indicated and have been performed by the bystanders on the scene up til the point where the ambulance arrives. Hospital data for each case will be retrieved. Those patients who did receive correct first aid will then be compared to those patients who did not receive first aid, and those where first aid was attempted but not correct for differences in share of survivors, length of hospital stay, and need for admission to ICU.

Conditions

• Wounds and Injury
• First Aid
• Bystander
• Trauma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	First aid	Open airway (head tilt, chin lift), recovery position, staunch of bleeding, prevention of hypothermia, cooling of burn, CPR

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-01
• Primary completion: 2020-08-01
• Completion: 2021-08-01
• First posted: 2017-06-19
• Last updated: 2017-06-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway