Do Patients Suffering a Cardiac Arrest Present to the Ambulance Service With Symptoms in the Preceeding 48hrs?

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: NEWS2 score

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04604639

3724/18

Details and patient eligibility

About

A cardiac arrest is often preceeded by a varying period of physiological deterioration which if acted upon may prevent the cardiac arrest. We aim to review patients presenting to the ambulance service with cardiac arrest so see if they had contacted the ambulance service in the preceeding 48 hrs to understand if warning symptoms were missed or not acted upon appropriately.

Full description

The UK ambulance services are called to attend 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) each year. Hospital studies have shown that many patients who suffer an in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) have been deteriorating for the preceeding 48 hrs and suggest that many IHCA are potentially avoidable if this deterioration is identified and actued on promptly. No similar study has been performed to see if patients suffering OHCA have also presented with warning signs in the preceeding 48 hrs that were overlooked.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients seen by SCAS ambulance crews and suffering a cardiac arrest within the following 48 hrs

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Description:

Patients suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to who the ambulance service was requested to attend.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: NEWS2 score