Clinical trial NCT03405467: 10-years Nationwide Alpine Accidents in Austria
Official title: A Retrospective 10-years Nationwide Observational Study of Alpine Accidents - Flight Accidents, CPR and AED in Alpine Region, Frostbite Injuries and Lightning Strike
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Alpine Accident
Frostbite
Cardiopulmonary Arrest With Successful Resuscitation
Lightning Injuries
Flight Accident
Lead sponsor: Medical University Innsbruck
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-01-23
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 120
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All Patients in the two databases eligible for the searched injury patterns.

Brief summary: This observational study intends to analyze the characteristic of specific accidents happened in Austrian's mountainous regions. The mechanisms of accidents which are evaluated are lightning accidents, cardiopulmonary resuscitation with or without automated external defibrillator, frostbite injuries, accidents with flying vehicle (e.g. paraglider, hang-glider...).

Detailed description: The data are collected retrospectively from the database of Austrian alpine police force. These data are analyzed. The information from this database (scene of accident, weather, daytime...) is compared to secondary data collected from the University Hospital of Innsbruck. The comparison of both databases was approved by the Austrian Data Protection Agency. The goal of the study is to give detailed information of circumstances leading to accident and give medical information of the patient's condition and his outcome.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Person suffering the injury searched for;

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of persons suffered an accident in Alpine Mountains in Austria
timeFrame: 2005-2015
measure: Gender of persons suffered an accident in Alpine Mountains in Austria
timeFrame: 2005-2015
measure: Mortality of persons suffered an accident in Alpine Mountains in Austria
timeFrame: 2005-2015
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.
timeFrame: 2005-2015
measure: Gender of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.
timeFrame: 2005-2015
measure: Injury severity score (ISS) of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.
timeFrame: 2005-2015
measure: Abbreviated Injury severity scale (AIS) of pattern like injured patients treated in University Hospital of Innsbruck, a major tertiary trauma center in western Austria.
timeFrame: 2005-2015
measure: Type of evacuation and mortality
timeFrame: 2005-2015
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Innsbruck
country: Austria
facility: General and Surgical Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck
Study officials:
affiliation: Hospital of Barmherzige Brüder Salzburg
name: Peter Paal, Dr
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Strohle M, Wallner B, Lanthaler M, Rauch S, Brugger H, Paal P. Lightning accidents in the Austrian alps - a 10-year retrospective nationwide analysis. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2018 Sep 10;26(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s13049-018-0543-9.