Trauma Reception and Resuscitation Project

Bayside Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Trauma

Treatments: Device: Real time computer prompted trauma algorithms

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00164034

166/03

Details and patient eligibility

About

Test the hypothesis that the implementation of real-time, computer-prompted algorithms in the first half hour of trauma management will result in a measurable reduction in management errors associated with the reception and resuscitation of major trauma patients.

Demonstrate that a reduction in management errors will translate into a reduction in morbidity and mortality.

Enrollment: 1,171 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: All injured patients > 15 years old who are brought or present to the The Alfred Trauma Centre during the study period.

Exclusion Criteria: Stable Trauma patients (ie Pulse rate <100/minute, MAP >70mmHg, Hb >70, temperature >35 and <37.5, Spo2 >92%, GCS >13) undergoing secondary transfer from another hospital, where trauma occurred >6hrs prior to arrival.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)