Management of Extremity Injuries Registry

Methodist Health System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Trauma

Treatments: Other: Non-Interventional (Registry)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07492758

039.TRA.2023.D

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to establish a data set that will be permissive of quality improvement studies/observations specific to life and limb salvage in comprisable extremity injuries.

Full description

Tourniquets are often overused. Direct pressure should be the first step in STB. Combat dressings allow for hands free pressure. These data could provide a foundation for pre-hospital process improvement studies.

This data repository will serve as a means to aggregate and analyze best practices related to trauma patients with extremity injuries. Specific interest will be placed in best practices of the emergency medical service and trauma bay, use of tourniquets and compression bandages, ischemic injuries, and limb salvage.

Enrollment: 999 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult trauma patients; defined by the American College of Surgeons as individuals age: ≥16 years
• Included in the MDMC trauma registry
• Documented extremity injury

Exclusion criteria

• <16 years old