Evaluation of Effectiveness of Blue Code Team After In-hospital Cardiopulmonary Arrest (Codeblue)

Aydin Adnan Menderes University

Status: Completed

Conditions: In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03378518

Codeblue

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to retrospectively examine patients evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call in our hospital between 2016-2017.

Primary outcome: an examination of the survival rates and demographic data of the patients evaluated as an emergency by a Code Blue call in the period 2016-2017.

Secondary outcome: to determine the rates of false Code Blue calls, the clinics giving Code Blue calls and the relationship between the times of Code Blue calls and mortality.

Full description

This study aimed to retrospectively examine patients evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call in our hospital between 20016 and 2017.

Primary outcome: an examination of the survival rates and demographic data of the patients evaluated as an emergency by a Code Blue call in the period 2016-2017.Secondary outcome: to determine the rates of false Code Blue calls, the clinics giving Code Blue calls and the relationship between the times of Code Blue calls and mortality.Inclusion criteria: patients throughout the whole hospital for whom a Code Blue form was completed and who were evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call.

Enrollment: 264 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Patients intervened by code blue team

Exclusion criteria

• Cardiac arrest in the anesthesiology and reanimation intensive care unit
• Cardiac arrest in the newborn intensive care unit
• Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest