Non-severe Traumatic Injuries Evaluation Using smartPhone Camera for Extra-hospital Regulation (NIEPCE)

Poitiers University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Visioconference; Pre-hospital Dispatching; Mild Traumatic Injury

Treatments: Procedure: Control; Procedure: Visioconference: live visual injury evaluation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05404425

NIEPCE Trial

Details and patient eligibility

About

Photography teletransmission allow a better and optimized dispatching of patients calling an Emergency Medical Call Center (EMCC) for a mild traumatic injury. It has previously been studied for patients to whom an ambulance was sent and therefore presumed to be older or with co-morbidities. The present trial aim to evaluate in the general population, the effect of a smartphone-mediated visioconference in the dispatching of patients calling an EMCC for mild traumatic injury.

Enrollment: 168 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients (≥18 years of age),
• free of will (not under any guardianship or liberty privation),
• suffering from Mild Traumatic Injury,
• availability of a smartphone with internet connection for the patients or witness,
• consenting to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• severe trauma requiring immediate medical assistance
• trauma associated with head injury, on antiplatelet therapy (APT) or anti-coagulation therapy (ACT)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

168 participants in 2 patient groups

Visioconference: live visual injury evaluation

Experimental group

Description:

For patients randomized in the intervention group, a live visual evaluation of the injury is performed by the Emergency Medical Call Center physician using a dedicated, secure smartphone app

Treatment:

Procedure: Visioconference: live visual injury evaluation

Standard Procedure

Other group

Description:

Usual management of patients

Treatment:

Procedure: Control