Impact of Medical Emergency Team and EMS in Tampere University Hospital

Tampere University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Death, Sudden,Cardiac

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01214460

R10111

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients in general wards have abnormal physical values preceding in-hospital cardiac arrest or a transfer to intensive care unit (ICU). The purpose of Medical Emergency Team (MET) or EMS is to interfere early enough in deteriorating patient status to prevent adverse outcomes like cardiac arrest or transfer to intensive care unit. The aims of this study are to record and analyze the effects of EMS and department of emergency and both afferent and efferent limbs of MET activity in Finnish tertiary Hospital.

Enrollment: 10,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 yrs or older

Exclusion criteria

• under 18 yrs

Trial design

10,000 participants in 3 patient groups

All MET calls

Description:

We make an Utstein type analyze to all MET calls

All EMS calls

Description:

We make an Utstein type analyze to all EMS calls during June 2015

All patient in the emergency department

Description:

We make an Utstein type analyze to all Emergency visits during June 2015