Prehospital Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Tampere University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02659046

R15158

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to measure the effect of Finnish physician-staffed EMS unit treatment methods on traumatic brain injury (TBI) patient prognosis.

In the second part of the study the gathered data will be combined with the data from an earlier study (NCT01454648) for regression analysis. The aim of the second study is to identify prehospital factors influencing the prognosis of prehospital TBI patients.

Full description

A secondary aim is to identify out-of-hospital treatment factors that can be influenced by education and protocols.

Enrollment: 266 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• TBI with GCS ≤ 8 or unconsciousness verified by an on-call neurosurgeon during admission to the hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Multiple trauma

Trial design

266 participants in 2 patient groups

FH30

Description:

Patients treated by Pirkanmaa physician-staffed emergency medical service (EMS) unit

FH10

Description:

Patients treated by Helsinki and Uusimaa physician-staffed emergency medical service (EMS) unit