NCT04934384

The Role of Prehospital eFAST in Accelerating Time to Diagnostics or Definitive Treatment in the Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 199 (actual)
• Sponsor: Azienda Usl di Bologna · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Actual literature has demonstrated that prehospital extended focused assessment sonography for trauma (eFAST) could impact on logistic and treatment decisions such as mode of transportation and choice of hospital destination. However, there are no data with regard to in-hospital effects of a positive prehospital eFAST. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of prehospital eFAST driven decisions on in hospital time-to-definitive diagnostics or time-to definitive treatment, whichever came first, in a level 1 trauma center. The goal is to define if this information could have a role in prioritizing patients' access to care in a population of abdominal trauma patients with A-AIS \> 1 and a documented liver or spleen injury.

Conditions

• Trauma Splenic
• Trauma Abdomen
• Liver Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	prehospital extended focused assessment sonography for trauma	Sonographic procedure performed in the prehospital environment aiming at evaluating peritoneal free fluid in trauma patients

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-25
• Primary completion: 2021-07-15
• Completion: 2021-07-26
• First posted: 2021-06-22
• Last updated: 2021-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy