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Filter by:Out of hospital cardiac arrest is associated with a poor prognosis. The aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of perturbations of iron metabolism after cardiac arrest and to analyze the impact on clinical centered outcome.
The study is aimed to assess (a) the incidence of hyperoxia at the point of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and (b) the role of arterial blood oxygen partial pressure to brain oxygenation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 80 adult patients will be recruited in a physician staffed helicopter emergency medical services. Brain regional oxygen saturation and invasive blood pressure are monitored until hospital admission and arterial blood gases are analyzed immediately when the unit arrives to the patient and again at the time of ROSC.
In this clinical study, a total of 1500 patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Seattle/King County will be enrolled. This will be a randomized clinical trial and patients will receive either two different doses of IV sodium nitrite (45 mg or 60 mg) or placebo during resuscitation in the field by paramedics. The primary outcome will be proportion of patients surviving to hospital admission.
Reliable data on stent thrombosis (ST) in comatose out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors is lacking. In comatose OHCA survivors suspicion of ST can be made with precise clinical monitoring of the patient with definite confirmation being possible only by coronary angiography or autopsy of deceased patients. However in addition to definite ST which can be confirmed using current protocols, additional ST which are clinically silent are plausible. These could be identified only by systematic coronary angiography of all OHCA survivors or by autopsy of deceased patients. Collectively with definite ST confirmed by coronary angiography upon clinical suspicion the incidence of all forms of ST in survivors of OHCA treated with PCI and hypothermia could be obtained. Consecutive comatose survivors of OHCA treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and hypothermia will be included. All study participants will receive treatment per our established clinical protocol and will be followed for 10 days. In all patients in whom clinical suspicion of ST will be made immediate coronary angiography and if necessary PCI will be carried out. In all patients that will die in the observed period of 10 days autopsy will be performed. Survivors however will have an additional control coronary angiography on 10th day after admission, to assess presence of clinically silent ST. We expect that the incidence of true definitive ST in comatose OHCA survivors treated with urgent PCI with stenting and hypothermia is greater than one, which is confirmed on the basis of clinical suspicion by angiography or later with autopsy.
Objective: To assess neurologic prognostication by early Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCD) in comatose survivors after cardiac arrest. Design: Prospective study between May 2016 and November 2017 in a medical intensive care unit and cardiac intensive care unit in a university hospital. Patients: all comatose patients older than 18 years successfully resuscitated from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Patients for whom OHCA is associated with traumatic brain injury, no window for TCD measurements, or dead before neurological prognostication are excluded.
This is a clinical study based on the analysis of video-clip data of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and clinical data for out of hospital cardiac arrest patients between 2011 and 2015. Aim of study is to compare the endotracheal intubation performance and CPR outcomes between videolaryngoscopy (VL) and direct laryngoscopy (DL) users.
The overall aim of this thesis is to identify the factors that may affect 13 year old students' acquisition of CPR skills and their willingness to act. The primary hypothesis is that the training method (intervention) influences the participants' acquisition of practical CPR skills and willingness to intervene. The study used a cluster randomized design, based on a randomization list generated by an independent statistician. The school classes were randomly assigned to different CPR training interventions. A strategic sample, where invitation to participate in the study was sent to the headmasters of all council schools, with seventh grade students, in two Swedish municipalities (140,000). Thus, the sample consists of participants with different cultural as well as socio-economic background. Eighteen of 24 schools agreed to participate. Four schools did not respond and two schools had a routine to offer CPR education only for grade nine (all six schools from the same municipality). The eighteen schools who agreed to participate consisted of sixty-eight classes with 1547 students. Prior to study participation, students and their guardians obtained a letter with study information. Study participation of the individual students was voluntary and all participants gave an oral informed consent. Inclusion criteria: seventh grade student in one of the participating schools. Exclusion criteria: student does not want to participate, student with a physical handicap that limited the physical performance, classes of students with development disabilities (these classes are age-integrated and have fewer students per class).
The investigators aimed to evaluate the effect of AMCPR (Augmented-Medication CardioPulmonary Resuscitation: administration of additional vasopressin to titrate to arterial diastolic blood pressure over 20 mmHg) on cardiopulmonary resuscitation results and outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.
This study aims to examine whether P30 wave of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) is related with outcome after cardiac arrest. The study design is a prospective, multicenter-observational study. Patients survived after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest undergoing hypothermic-targeted temperature management will participate in the study. Relationship of P30 wave of SEP with the neurologic outcome on hospital discharge will be evaluated.
This study compares two blood pressure targets and two oxygenation targets in the post-resuscitation care of comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrets patients. Using a novel method the blood pressure-intervention is double-blinded. The oxygenation-intervention is open-label. As a subordinate study, the patients will be randomized 1:1 to active fever-control with an automated feedback temperature control-device for 36 or 72 hours following return of spontaneous circulation.