Surgical and Medical Emergencies on Board of European Aircraft Carriers

Ruhr University of Bochum

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diarrhea; Circulatory Collapse; Chest Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00713102

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this retrospective study is to describe emergency relevant illnesses occurring in airline passengers.

Full description

An epidemiologic database documenting medical and surgical emergencies across European airlines will provide access to data potentially valuable for further flight-epidemiological research. Data on medical emergencies / per rpk (revenue passenger kilometres) are sparse and often based on data from a single airline. While handling the data the regulations of the data protection act of the Ethic commission of the Ruhr-University Bochum are fully respected. As noted, evaluation of the data will be completely anonymized without any information regarding the airline or other details than the passengers illness.

Preview: The results of the study specified above will be submitted for publication in a peer review and Medline listed journal.

Study Design: Retrospective, epidemiological study for the evaluation of medical and surgical emergencies on board airliners.

Patients: In the context of a retrospective study approximately 20,000 patient data from 32 European airlines are collected and statistically evaluated.

Documentation: The direct documentation takes place through project responsible person into an electronic statistical data base.

Enrollment: 10,189 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men, women, adolescent, children and babies who have suffered from an emergency on board an European airline.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

10,189 participants in 1 patient group

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Description:

The group includes 10189 patients with on board medical or surgical emergencies.