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CompletedNCT03405467

10-years Nationwide Alpine Accidents in Austria

A Retrospective 10-years Nationwide Observational Study of Alpine Accidents - Flight Accidents, CPR and AED in Alpine Region, Frostbite Injuries and Lightning Strike

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
500 (actual)
Sponsor
Medical University Innsbruck · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
120 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

This observational study intends to analyze the characteristic of specific accidents happened in Austrian's mountainous regions. The mechanisms of accidents which are evaluated are lightning accidents, cardiopulmonary resuscitation with or without automated external defibrillator, frostbite injuries, accidents with flying vehicle (e.g. paraglider, hang-glider…).

Detailed description

The data are collected retrospectively from the database of Austrian alpine police force. These data are analyzed. The information from this database (scene of accident, weather, daytime…) is compared to secondary data collected from the University Hospital of Innsbruck. The comparison of both databases was approved by the Austrian Data Protection Agency. The goal of the study is to give detailed information of circumstances leading to accident and give medical information of the patient's condition and his outcome.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERgeneral and specific dataGeneral and specific data collected

Timeline

Start date
2015-01-21
Primary completion
2017-08-31
Completion
2017-08-31
First posted
2018-01-23
Last updated
2018-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03405467. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.