An observational study in Cardiac Arrest, Sudden and Heart Arrest, sponsored by University of Zurich. Completed at 1 site in Switzerland. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-11-02.
Sponsored by University of Zurich · Observational
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).
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.
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This study's enrollment of 1,662 is above the median of 200 across 383 observational studies indexed under Heart Arrest.
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Out of hospital patients suffered or suffering cardiac arrest, who were or will be resuscitated by laypersons, city police and/or trained emergency medical services teams who were called to the emergency
Exclusion Criteria:
Time line for restoration the circulation
Timeline for restoration the circulation after layperson started the reanimation
Time frame: participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death
Time interval to first shock ,
Time interval from the emergency call to first shock for ventricular fibrillation
Time frame: participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death
Neurologic outcome
Data will be collected according to Utstein criteria
Time frame: participants will be followed from origin of the event for duration of hospital stay, follow up after 12 month or death
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
Time frame: participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death
Definitive survival rate
Survival rate of participants resuscitated by layperson after cardiac arrest
Time frame: participants will be followed from origin of the event up to 12 month or death
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