Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Epidemiology and Outcomes in Kaunas 2016-2021

Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Other: Dispatcher protocol change

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04784117

LITOHCA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rate is common problem, because of high mortality rate. It is not clear incidence rate, epidemiology and outcomes in Lithuania and Kaunas city included.

Full description

This data reported according to UTSTEIN guidelines could be compared with other countries from the region although not much data is available, but it will be a baseline for future references about processes in patient management, demographics, incidence rate and OHCA outcomes.

Enrollment: 1,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• OHCA patients of all ages more than 18 years-old with resuscitation commenced or continued by EMS personnel were included.

Exclusion criteria

• obviously dead patients, were excluded

Trial design

1,500 participants in 2 patient groups

Subgroup 2016-2018

Description:

Subgroup before change of dispatcher protocol

Subgroup 2019-2021

Description:

Subgroup after change of dispatcher protocol

Treatment:

Other: Dispatcher protocol change