Airway Management Study in Physician Manned Helicopter Emergency Medical Services

NCT01502111 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: NLA-3104-01/02
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 2,333
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

An international airway management expert group has recently developed an Utstein-style template for uniform reporting of data from prehospital advanced airway management. Implementing and validating the template will result in a high quality dataset and allow for research cooperation and comparison of airway management practice between EMS systems, and across different patient populations. Such a dataset will hopefully contribute to new knowledge in the field of prehospital advanced airway management.

Conditions

Trauma; Cardiac Arrest; Emergencies

Keywords

decreased level of consciousness; hypoxemia; ineffective ventilation; airway obstruction; combative or unresponsive; relief of pain or distress; cardiopulmonary arrest

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Number of participants who survive to hospital admission

  Time from injury/illness to admission hospital, up to 24 hours

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Number of participants with adverse events during airway interventions

  Time from injury/illness to admission hospital, up to 24 hours

Study Arms (1)

Airway management

Patients receiving advanced airway management in physician manned helicopter emergency medical services over a 12-month period.

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients receiving advanced airway management in physician manned helicopter emergency medical services over a 12-month period. Data reported according to the Utstein style template for uniform reporting of data from prehospital advanced airway management

You may qualify if:

• All patients requiring and receiving prehospital advanced airway management on HEMS primary missions.
• Advanced airway management is defined as the attempted insertion of an advanced airway adjunct (including endotracheal intubation, alternative airways, and surgical airway /cricothyroidectomy) or the administration of ventilatory assistance/support (including bag-mask ventilation-BMV, BIPAP/CPAP or other ventilatory support).
• Advanced prehospital advanced airway management is further defined as any airway management beyond manual opening of the airway and use of simple airway adjuncts, such as a Guedel airway or supplemental oxygen

You may not qualify if:

• Patients receiving advanced airway management during so-called secondary missions (or inter-hospital transfer).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation: lead
• Haukeland University Hospital: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

Drøbak, Drøbak, 1441, Norway

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Sunde GA, Sandberg M, Lyon R, Fredriksen K, Burns B, Hufthammer KO, Roislien J, Soti A, Jantti H, Lockey D, Heltne JK, Sollid SJM. Hypoxia and hypotension in patients intubated by physician staffed helicopter emergency medical services - a prospective observational multi-centre study. BMC Emerg Med. 2017 Jul 11;17(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s12873-017-0134-5.

  PMID: 28693491 DERIVED

• Sunde GA, Heltne JK, Lockey D, Burns B, Sandberg M, Fredriksen K, Hufthammer KO, Soti A, Lyon R, Jantti H, Kamarainen A, Reid BO, Silfvast T, Harm F, Sollid SJ; Airport Study Group. Airway management by physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services - a prospective, multicentre, observational study of 2,327 patients. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2015 Aug 7;23:57. doi: 10.1186/s13049-015-0136-9.

  PMID: 26250700 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Wounds and Injuries; Heart Arrest; Emergencies; Hypoxia; Airway Obstruction

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory; Signs and Symptoms; Respiratory Insufficiency; Respiration Disorders; Respiratory Tract Diseases

Study Officials

• Stephen Sollid, MD, PhD

  Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

  STUDY CHAIR

• Geir A Sunde, MD

  Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 22, 2011
• First Posted: December 30, 2011
• Study Start: January 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2013
• Study Completion: March 1, 2013
• Last Updated: May 8, 2013

Record last verified: 2013-05

Locations

NO (1)