Trauma patients at Aarhus University Hospital
Title
Trauma patients at Aarhus University Hospital from the year 2000 to 2020
Aim
The overall purpose of the project is to describe and characterize the evolution of trauma epidemiology and mechanisms over the past 20 years in a representative region of Denmark.
The focus will be concerned trauma types, severity and epidemiological parameters, uptake area and vital parameters upon arrival at the emergency department and changes in organization after implementation of helicopter emergency medical service and its influence on outcome.
Design
The study is a retrospective registry study based on data from the trauma quality database at the AUH Trauma Center.
Setting
Aarhus University Hospital Trauma Center
Perspective
The Trauma Center at Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) is one of four trauma centers in Denmark. The uptake area comprises 1,3 million citizens of Denmark’s 5,8 million citizens. AUH Trauma Center receives approximately 600 trauma patients by ambulance and helicopter annually. Since the year 2000 all trauma call patients at (AUH) has been categorized with an expanded set of data and scoring in the AUH Trauma Registry, a quality control database. The AUH Trauma Registry has not been studied in recent years according to the trauma profile or quality of the treatment. Characterizing and analyzing trauma patients consecutively can improve trauma care and describe tendencies trough time. These data impose an extraordinary possibility for epidemiological analyzes and comparison to other countries and regions.
Conflicts of interest
None
Collaborators
Emergency Department, Aarhus University Hospital
Hans Kirkegaard, professor, MD, DMsC., Ph.D., DEAA, DLS
Jesper Fjølner, MD
Anders Høyer Sørensen, MD
