Trauma Registration at St. Olavs Hospital 2000-2003

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Trauma Centers/Statistics & Numerical Data; Injuries, Multiple; Norway/Epidemiology; Trauma, Multiple; Trauma Severity Indices

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00184470

NTNU-Traume-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

St. Olavs Hospital is a trauma referral center in the region of Midtnorge. Admitting trauma patients locally and those referred from hospitals in Nord-Trøndelag, Sør-Trøndelag and Møre-Romsdal.An active trauma team was defined in 1992, but it's work has not been evaluated earlier. Prospective studies of these patients were established 1st of January 2004 at St. Olavs Hospital.

Full description

This mapping is a observational retrospective study of trauma patients admitted to St.Olavs Hospital from 2000 until 2003. Patient journals (electronic and paper), autopsy reports and the emergency medical respons systems (AMK) database have been reviwed. We are reviewing the local traumaepidemiology, traumateam performance, mechanisms of injury and the potenially avoidable deaths in trauma.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Trauma team activation
• Motor vehicle crash with ejection
• Pedal cyclist, motorcyclist or pedestrian hit by vehicle >30 km/h
• Fall > 5 meters
• Fatality in same vehicle
• Interhospital trauma transfer within 24 hrs
• Injury to two or more body regions
• Fracture to two or more long bones
• Spinal cord injury
• Amputation of a limb
• Penetrating injury to head, neck, torso or proximal limb

Exclusion criteria

• Burns
• Strangulations