Trauma Routing Algorithm for Pediatrics
| Status: | Active, not recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Hospital |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Other |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | Any - 18 |
| Updated: | 1/23/2019 |
| Start Date: | November 27, 2017 |
| End Date: | January 1, 2020 |
Traumatic injury is the leading cause of pediatric death in the United States for those
forty-four years of age and younger. Pediatric trauma patients generally have reduced
mortality when treated at pediatric trauma centers rather than at adult centers or
non-tertiary care facilities. However, nearly half the US pediatric population lives over
fifty miles from a Level I or II Trauma Center. While air ambulances are readily available in
many jurisdictions, few guidelines and little evidence dictate their appropriate use,
especially with regard to pediatric trauma. Previous research is mixed regarding mortality
benefit from helicopter Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in injured children. Previous
attempts to develop appropriate field triage criteria have failed due to poor sensitivity and
specificity for identifying the critically injured child. The current high rate of overtriage
is particularly concerning in today's cost-conscious medical community. This research study
aims to categorize pre-hospital pediatric trauma in North Carolina, to determine what
benefits helicopter EMS provides in the North Carolina trauma system, and to formulate an
enhanced screening tool for pre-hospital use to help determine which patients are suitable
candidates for helicopter EMS transport.
forty-four years of age and younger. Pediatric trauma patients generally have reduced
mortality when treated at pediatric trauma centers rather than at adult centers or
non-tertiary care facilities. However, nearly half the US pediatric population lives over
fifty miles from a Level I or II Trauma Center. While air ambulances are readily available in
many jurisdictions, few guidelines and little evidence dictate their appropriate use,
especially with regard to pediatric trauma. Previous research is mixed regarding mortality
benefit from helicopter Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in injured children. Previous
attempts to develop appropriate field triage criteria have failed due to poor sensitivity and
specificity for identifying the critically injured child. The current high rate of overtriage
is particularly concerning in today's cost-conscious medical community. This research study
aims to categorize pre-hospital pediatric trauma in North Carolina, to determine what
benefits helicopter EMS provides in the North Carolina trauma system, and to formulate an
enhanced screening tool for pre-hospital use to help determine which patients are suitable
candidates for helicopter EMS transport.
The North Carolina Trauma Registry will identify pediatric trauma patients between 0 and 18
years of age who presented directly to North Carolina Level 1 Trauma Centers from the field
after sustaining injury from January 1st, 2013 and October 2017.
The analysis will be a retrospective cohort study by nature of the data set. Final
methodology will be determined after Institutional Review Board approval and enlistment of
statistical support through the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Clinical and
non-clinical factors will first be summarized with univariate analysis to provide a
descriptive overview of the study population. These factors will include number of
case-patients, demographics, scene address/location, time of injury, EMS agency involved, EMS
call times, transport mechanism, time of transport, distance of transport, geographic area of
injury, mechanism of injury, severity scores, Glasgow Coma Score, vital signs, receiving
hospital name, and other variables. Similarly, interventions and outcomes will be compared
between study groups through such factors such as length of emergency department stay,
emergency department disposition, time to operating room, intubation status on arrival,
administration of blood products, days of hospital stay, days of intensive care unit stay,
days on ventilator, if viable organs were procured post-mortem, and mortality at given time
points. Outcomes will be compared through regression analysis or related means.
years of age who presented directly to North Carolina Level 1 Trauma Centers from the field
after sustaining injury from January 1st, 2013 and October 2017.
The analysis will be a retrospective cohort study by nature of the data set. Final
methodology will be determined after Institutional Review Board approval and enlistment of
statistical support through the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Clinical and
non-clinical factors will first be summarized with univariate analysis to provide a
descriptive overview of the study population. These factors will include number of
case-patients, demographics, scene address/location, time of injury, EMS agency involved, EMS
call times, transport mechanism, time of transport, distance of transport, geographic area of
injury, mechanism of injury, severity scores, Glasgow Coma Score, vital signs, receiving
hospital name, and other variables. Similarly, interventions and outcomes will be compared
between study groups through such factors such as length of emergency department stay,
emergency department disposition, time to operating room, intubation status on arrival,
administration of blood products, days of hospital stay, days of intensive care unit stay,
days on ventilator, if viable organs were procured post-mortem, and mortality at given time
points. Outcomes will be compared through regression analysis or related means.
Inclusion Criteria:
- • Pediatric trauma victims 0-18 years old who are reported in the North Carolina
Trauma Registry after presenting to a North Carolina Trauma Center between January
1st, 2013 and October, 2017.
Exclusion Criteria:
- • Interfacility transport patients are excluded
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