10-years Nationwide Alpine Accidents in Austria

Medical University Innsbruck

Status: Completed

Conditions: Frostbite; Cardiopulmonary Arrest With Successful Resuscitation; Flight Accident; Alpine Accident; Lightning Injuries

Treatments: Other: general and specific data

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03405467

AN4757 315/4.4

Details and patient eligibility

About

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...).

Full 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.

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 120 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Person suffering the injury searched for;

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

500 participants in 4 patient groups

lightning accident

Description:

patients suffered injuries due to lightning strike

Treatment:

Other: general and specific data

frostbite

Description:

patients suffered injuries due to local hypothermia leading to frostbite injuries

Treatment:

Other: general and specific data

cpr and aed

Description:

patients suffered cardiac arrest in alpine region treated with or without automated external defibrillatior

Treatment:

Other: general and specific data

flight accident

Description:

patients suffered injuries due to use of a flying vehicle in mountainous regions.

Treatment:

Other: general and specific data