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The Role of Prehospital eFAST in Accelerating Time to Diagnostics or Definitive Treatment in the Emergency Department

NCT04934384 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 199

Last updated 2021-08-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Actual literature has demonstrated that prehospital extended focused assessment sonography for trauma (eFAST) could impact on logistic and treatment decisions such as mode of transportation and choice of hospital destination.

However, there are no data with regard to in-hospital effects of a positive prehospital eFAST.

The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of prehospital eFAST driven decisions on in hospital time-to-definitive diagnostics or time-to definitive treatment, whichever came first, in a level 1 trauma center.

The goal is to define if this information could have a role in prioritizing patients' access to care in a population of abdominal trauma patients with A-AIS \> 1 and a documented liver or spleen injury.

Conditions

  • Trauma Splenic
  • Trauma Abdomen
  • Liver Injury

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

prehospital extended focused assessment sonography for trauma

Sonographic procedure performed in the prehospital environment aiming at evaluating peritoneal free fluid in trauma patients

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Azienda Usl di Bologna

    lead OTHER_GOV

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-06-25
Primary Completion
2021-07-15
Completion
2021-07-26

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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