Influence of the Education in Layperson in Out of Hospital Resuscitation

Heart Arrest Clinical Trial

Official title:

Influence of the Education in Layperson Resuscitation and Preparation the Patrol Car of the City Police With Automatic External Defibrillators and Automated Ventilation Equipment on Out of Hospital Resuscitation Outcome

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02473679
• Other study ID #: KEK2014 - 0665
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 13, 2015
• Last updated: November 1, 2016
• Start date: January 2003
• Est. completion date: July 2016

Study information

• Verified date: November 2016
• Source: University of Zurich
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Switzerland: Ethikkommission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Cardiac arrest occurs frequently and the outcome after out-of-hospital resuscitation is often fatal. Disturbing is that more than half of the surviving patients suffer from permanent impairment of cognitive functions, such attention, memory and executive functioning. With all the efforts to achieve a high quality initial resuscitation management the time delay between cardiac arrest and the beginning the initial resuscitation maneuver is the main reason for the still poor outcome. To shorten this fatal time delay, current efforts of national and supranational health authorities aime at the non-medically trained lay person, who should carry out basic life support directly on the scene supported by the use of public available semi-automatic defibrillators (AED).

Description:

It is a combined retrospective and prospective observational single center study. Data of all Out of Hospital patients suffered a cardiac arrest in Zurich city will be collected according to the Utstein criteria. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of trained police forces in the resuscitation outcome.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1662
• Est. completion date: July 2016
• Est. primary completion date: July 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All Out of hospital patients suffering cardiac arrest in Zurich City, resuscitated by lay persons, city police and or trained emergency medical services

Exclusion Criteria:

• individuals with cardiac arrest occurring in the presence of EMS

• individuals in whom there were apparent toxic, traumatic or suicidal etiologies for unconsciousness

• drowned individuals and individuals with terminal illness

• documented negation of data collection

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiac Arrest, Sudden
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Heart Arrest

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	University Hospital Zurich	Zurich

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Zurich

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time line for restoration the circulation	Timeline for restoration the circulation after layperson started the reanimation	participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death	No
Secondary	Time interval to first shock ,	Time interval from the emergency call to first shock for ventricular fibrillation	participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death	No
Secondary	Neurologic outcome	Data will be collected according to Utstein criteria	participants will be followed from origin of the event for duration of hospital stay, follow up after 12 month or death	No
Secondary	Time interval removal from ICU as well as discharged from hospital	Time interval up to the removal from ICU as well as duration of hospital stay	participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death	No
Secondary	Definitive survival rate	Survival rate of participants resuscitated by layperson after cardiac arrest	participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death	No