Clinical trial NCT00713102: Surgical and Medical Emergencies on Board of European Aircraft Carriers
Official title: Surgical and Medical Emergencies on Board of European Aircraft Carriers
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Circulatory Collapse
Chest Pain
Diarrhea
Keywords: in-flight emergency
Lead sponsor: Ruhr University of Bochum
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2008-07-11
Enrollment: 10189
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Men, women, adolescent, children and babies who have suffered from an emergency on board an European airline.

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

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: All cause mortality, cause of medical or surgical emergency while on aircraft
timeFrame: 5 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bochum
country: Germany
facility: Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
state: NRW
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum
name: Benno Mann, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
name: Michael Sand, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Sand M, Bechara FG, Sand D, Mann B. Surgical and medical emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective study of 10189 cases. Crit Care. 2009;13(1):R3. doi: 10.1186/cc7690. Epub 2009 Jan 20.