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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 12 February 2013
Main ID:  ISRCTN68866227
Date of registration: 06/01/2006
Primary sponsor: The Victorian Trauma Foundation (Australia)
Public title: Trauma Reception and Resuscitation - 'Time for a New Approach' TR&RP
Scientific title:
Date of first enrolment: Jan 1 2005
Target sample size: 1162
Recruitment status: Completed/Not recruiting
URL:  http://isrctn.org/ISRCTN68866227
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Treatment, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study  
Countries of recruitment
Australia
Contacts
Name: Mark  Fitzgerald
Address:  The Alfred Hospital Emergency and Trauma Centre P.O. Box 315 3181 Prahran Australia
Telephone: +61 (0)3 92762782
Email: m.fitzgerald@alfred.org.au
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1162 test and control trauma cases presenting to the Trauma Centre of the Alfred Hospital.
Exclusion criteria: Stable trauma patients (i.e. pulse rate <100/minute, mean arterial pressure [MAP] >70 mmHg, Hb >70, temperature >35 °C and <37.5 °C, SpO2 >92%, Glasgow Coma Score [GCS] >13) undergoing secondary transfer from another hospital, where trauma occurred >6 hours prior to arrival, will be excluded.

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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Traumatic injury
Intervention(s)
A historical control to assess the Hawthorne effect.
A randomised controlled trial comparing trauma resuscitation supported by real-time computer prompted algorithms against those without.
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary benefits will be:
1. The development of evidence-based algorithms for trauma resuscitation
2. The development of real-time, computer aided, data collection during trauma resuscitation
3. Testing the hypothesis that the introduction of real-time, computer-prompted algorithms will result in a measurable reduction in management errors associated with reception and resuscitation of major trauma patients
4. Demonstrating that a reduction in management errors translates into a reduction in morbidity and mortality
Secondary Outcome(s)
The secondary benefits will be:
1. Standardising, publishing and distributing resuscitation documentation, interventions and diagnoses
2. Critical evaluation of the cost-benefit of trauma resuscitation video audit
3. Rejuvenation of resuscitation research through the development of a standardised environment
Secondary ID(s)
N/A
NCT00164034
Source(s) of Monetary Support
The Victorian Trauma Foundation and The Alfred Hospital - Bayside Health
Secondary Sponsor(s)
N/A
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