NCT04034797

Brief Summary

Physicians in charge of medical regulation within French SAMU have to take difficult decisions regarding patient's orientation (in or out-of hospital care) but suffer from lack of information. Such information usually consist in a simple phone conversation without any visual information. Visual assesment of the situation would be of great help, especially for traumatized patients. Private Ambulance societies all over territory in charge of SAMU 86 now work with teletransmission devices allowing photography transmission. The objective of the study is to determine if routine use of teletransmitted photography help SAMU 86's physians for a better orientation of non-severe traumatized patients, especially by avoiding unnecessary transportations to Emergency Departments.

Trial Health

87
On Track

Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment
179

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable

Timeline
Completed

Started Apr 2019

Typical duration for not_applicable

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
completed

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Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

March 27, 2019

Completed
1 month until next milestone

Study Start

First participant enrolled

April 29, 2019

Completed
3 months until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

July 26, 2019

Completed
2 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

July 31, 2021

Completed
Same day until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

July 31, 2021

Completed
Last Updated

February 21, 2022

Status Verified

September 1, 2020

Enrollment Period

2.3 years

First QC Date

March 27, 2019

Last Update Submit

February 18, 2022

Conditions

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Impact of Photography on patient orientation

    Number of patient dispatched anywhere else than the local hospital after ambulance assesement. Either the patient was dispatched to a higher level hospital (i.e. if the local hospital doesn't provide surgical facility when the patient needs it) or he was leaved at home and oriented to a general practitioner.

    1 - 2 hours

Secondary Outcomes (2)

  • Undertriage

    10 days

  • Overtriage

    10 days

Study Arms (2)

Photo

EXPERIMENTAL
Other: Photography teletransmission

No photo

ACTIVE COMPARATOR
Other: No photo

Interventions

A photography of the trauma is teletransmitted to SAMU's physician

Photo

Usual management without photography teletransmission

No photo

Eligibility Criteria

Age18 Years+
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsAdult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

  • Emergency call at SAMU for trauma issue
  • Pre-hospital management by private ambulance equipped with teletransmission device

You may not qualify if:

  • Severe trauma with need of a pre-hospital emergency medical team
  • Traffic accident
  • Head trauma associated with anticoagulant therapy or platelet antiagregant therapy
  • Pre-hospital management by firefighters

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

CHU Poitiers

Poitiers, Aquitaine, 86000, France

Location

Related Publications (1)

  • Magimel-Pelonnier E, Marjanovic N, Couvreur R, Drugeon B, Mimoz O, Guenezan J. Photography tele-transmission by regular ambulance staff for the management of mild traumatic injury: the NiCEPHORE randomised-controlled trial. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2022 Oct 14;30(1):53. doi: 10.1186/s13049-022-01026-0.

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Wounds and Injuries

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Who Masked
PARTICIPANT
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

March 27, 2019

First Posted

July 26, 2019

Study Start

April 29, 2019

Primary Completion

July 31, 2021

Study Completion

July 31, 2021

Last Updated

February 21, 2022

Record last verified: 2020-09

Data Sharing

IPD Sharing
Will not share

Locations