An observational study in Drowning, Drown and Drowning; Anoxia, sponsored by Prehospital Center, Region Zealand. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in Denmark. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-03-25.
Sponsored by Prehospital Center, Region Zealand · Observational
A recent study reported significantly increased mortality from drowning-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Danish harbours compared to other public places (e.g., public pools, coastlines, and lakes). Accurate and reliable data are necessary before establishing specific educational, preventative, rescue, or treatment strategies to reduce the number of drowning incidents in Danish harbours and improve survival. Therefore, it is essential to characterise drowning incidents in Danish harbours and analyse risk factors associated with fatal drowning.
Based on the GPS coordinates and advanced text-searching, it is possible to identify drowning incidents in Danish harbours and extract data from the Danish Prehospital Drowning Data.
This study is a nationwide registry-based study with data from the Danish Prehospital Drowning Data from 2016 to 2023. In this study, we will use 30-day mortality to differentiate between fatal and non-fatal drowning.
The primary objective is to estimate the yearly incidence of fatal and non-fatal drowning incidents in Danish harbours treated by the EMS from 2016 to 2023 and calculate the fatal to non-fatal ratio. The secondary objective is to assess risk factors associated with 30-day mortality.
21 studies on the registry are indexed under Drowning; 6 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 400 is below the median of 1,099 across 14 observational studies indexed under Drowning.
Browse Drowning studies →Prehospital Center, Region Zealand is the lead sponsor of 16 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
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The target condition in this study is drowning, irrespective of follow-up at 30 days (fatal or non-fatal). We used the WHO definition of drowning supported by the clarification statement for non-fatal drowning as the case definition to identify drowning (target condition) during the manual validation.
The study unit is the individual drowning patient. The target population are all fatal and non-fatal drowning patients in Danish harbours treated by the EMS in Denmark since 2016. Due to the comprehensive search criteria in the Danish Drowning Formula, it is reasonable to believe that the target population is identical to the study population.
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Exclusion Criteria:
This group of patients experienced a drowning incident defined as the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion or immersion in liquid and died within 30 days after the incident as a consequence of the submersion injury.
Other: Drowning
This group of patients experienced a drowning incident defined as the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion or immersion in liquid and survived until 30 days after the incident.
Other: Drowning
Drowning is defined as the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion or immersion in liquid.
Yearly incidence of drowning incidents
Yearly incidence of fatal and non-fatal drowning incidents in Danish harbours treated by the EMS from 2016-2023
Time frame: 30 days after the drowning incident
Fatal to non-fatal drowning ratio
Cumulated counts of fatal to non-fatal drowning incidents from 2016-2023
Time frame: 30 days after the drowning incident
Assess risk factors associated with 30-day mortality
Hypothesis-driven assessment of risk factors associated with drowning-related 30-day mortality
Time frame: 30 days after the drowning incident
Plan to share: No — The datasets used and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Start is estimated for May 2024; primary completion for Dec 2024, 7 months later.
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