The EPIC Project: Impact of Implementing the EMS Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Guidelines
Completed
Conditions studied: Brain Injuries, Traumatic, Injuries, Acute Brain, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
In brief
Evaluation of the impact (on survival and other outcomes) of implementing the Brain Trauma Foundation/National Association of EMS Physicians Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) guidelines in the prehospital EMS systems throughout the state of Arizona.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01339702
- Run by
- University of Arizona
- People needed
- 26873
- Starts
- 2011-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-08-28
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adults and children with physical trauma who: 1) are transported directly to or are transferred to a level I TC by participating EMS agencies, 2) have hospital diagnosis(es) consistent with TBI (either isolated or multisystem trauma that includes TBI), and 3) meet at least one of the following definitions for severe TBI: a) last prehospital GCS or first hospital/trauma center GCS <9; b) AIS-head of ≥3, c) CDC Barell Matrix-Type 1, d) undergo prehospital ETI, nasal intubation, or cricothyrotomy.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients with brain injury from: 1) non-mechanical mechanisms (e.g., drowning); 2) choking, primary asphyxiation, or strangulation; 3) environmental injury (e.g., hyperthermia); 4) poisoning (e.g., drug overdose, carbon monoxide, insecticides); 5) intracranial hemorrhage of non-traumatic origin; 6) other non-traumatic, acute neurological emergencies (e.g., bacterial meningitis).
Where it is running
- Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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