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Developing an Utstein-style Danish Drowning Registry: Nationwide Fatal and Nonfatal Drowning Data Since 2016

ConditionsDrowningDrowning, NearDrowning; AsphyxiaDrowning and Nonfatal SubmersionDrowning or Immersion of Unknown IntentDrowning and Submersion, Undetermined IntentDrowning and Submersion While in Bath-TubDrowning and Submersion While in Natural WaterDrowning and Submersion While in Swimming-Pool
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorPrehospital Center, Region Zealand

About this trial

This nationwide, registry-based study aims to link Danish Prehospital Drowning Data data with inhospital data to develop a Utstein-style Danish Drowning Registry. This study will report mortality and neurological outcomes 30 days after a drowning incident since 2016.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Drowning

Being registered in the Danish Prehospital Drowning Data with a valid civil registration number to allow for linkage with the inhospital electronic medical records

Disqualifiers

Obvious signs of irreversible death (decapitation, decomposition, post-mortem lividity, post-mortem rigidity).

Declared dead on scene.

A valid Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation order or other code status orders limiting life-sustaining therapies.

An invalid civil registration number.

Trial population

Fatal and non-fatal drowning persons from 2016 identified in the Danish Prehospital Drowning Data.

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Retrospective

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Drowning

    Other intervention

    Drowning is defined by the WHO in 2002 as "the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion or immersion in liquid"

Treatment groups

1,500 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Fatal drowning1 intervention
Group B: Non-fatal drowning1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

30-day mortality

The patient died before 30 days after the drowning incident

Time frame
30 days after the drowning incident
2

Neurological outcome

Using the modified Ranking Scale (mRS) score

Time frame
30 days after the drowning incident

Secondary outcomes

1

Hospital length of stay

Continuous

Time frame
Immediately after hospital discharge
2

Intensive care unit admission

Binary

Time frame
Immediately after hospital discharge
3

Intensive care unit length of stay

Continuous

Time frame
Immediately after hospital discharge
4

Need for mechanical ventilation

Binary

Time frame
Immediately after hospital discharge

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Prehospital Center, Region Zealand

Lead sponsor

Region Zealand

Sponsor institution

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