Trials / Completed
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
- Alpine Accident
- Frostbite
- Cardiopulmonary Arrest With Successful Resuscitation
- Lightning Injuries
- Flight Accident
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | general and specific data | General 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.