OSCAR - Osnabrück Study on Cardiac Arrest

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and resuscitation; I46; Cardiac arrest

• Registration Number: DRKS00009903
• Lead Sponsor: GS Elektromed. Geräte G. Stemple GmbH

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-02-09
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 279

Inclusion Criteria

All patients who will be resuscitated out of hospital by the EMS (emergency medical service) of the county of Osnabrück (Niedersachsen, Germany).

Exclusion Criteria

All patients with a traumatic cardiac arrest or patient who are resuscitated shorter than 1 minute will be excluded. Prisoners will be excluded as well.

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1.1. Does a realtime-feedbacksystem influences the quality of resuscitation (compression depth, compression rate and pauses in chest compression). 1.2. Accomplishing the European Resuscitation Councils (ERC) standards regarding compression depth, compression rate and pauses in chest compression.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
2.1. Change in short time survival defined as ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation) at hospital admission.