• Der Anaesthesist · Jan 2014

    [Out-of-hospital emergency medicine in Germany, Austria and Switzerland : Randomized prospective studies from 1990 to 2012.]

    • J Ausserer, T Abt, K H Stadlbauer, P Paal, J Kreutziger, K H Lindner, and V Wenzel.
    • Univ.-Klinik für Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Österreich.
    • Anaesthesist. 2014 Jan 1;63(1):54-61.

    BackgroundOnly randomized clinical trials can improve the outcome of life-threatening injuries or diseases but observations from England and North America suggest that the number of such randomized clinical trials is decreasing. In this study contributions from German speaking countries with regards to randomized clinical trials in emergency medicine over the last 22 years were investigated.MethodsThe Medline database was searched from January 1990 to December 2012 for prospective randomized clinical trials in the prehospital setting using the criteria "cardiac arrest", "cardiopulmonary resuscitation", "multiple trauma", "hemorrhagic shock", "head trauma", "stroke" as well as myocardial infarction and emergency medical service. Only studies originating from Germany, Austria or Switzerland were included.ResultsA total of 474 studies were found and 25 studies (5.3 %) fulfilled the inclusion criteria. In the last 22 years German speaking countries have published approximately one prospective, randomized, clinical trial per year on prehospital emergency medicine. The median number of patients included in the trials was 159 (minimum 16, maximum 1,219). Most (80 %) studies originated from Germany and most (64 %) studies were conducted by anesthesiology departments. Cardiac arrest was the most frequent subject of the investigated studies. Approximately 50 % of the studies had financial support from industrial companies.ConclusionA significant increase or decrease in the number of prospective randomized clinical trials in the out-of-hospital setting could not be found in German speaking countries despite the fact that the absolute numbers of studies had increased. Only about one prospective, randomized clinical trial with an emergency medicine core tracer diagnosis originated from Germany, Austria and Switzerland per year.

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