Dealing with living wills by medical and non-medical emergency service personnel in the context of out-of-hospital cardiovascular arrest
Recruiting
- Conditions
- I46Cardiac arrest
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031586
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Marburg, Klinik für Anästhesie und Intensivtherapie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 150
Inclusion Criteria
Employee at DRK Rettungsdienst Mittelhessen gGmbH
Age = 18 years
Involvement in a resuscitation situation
Living will presented or requested by the rescue team
Exclusion Criteria
Not an employee of DRK Rettungsdienst Mittelhessen gGmbH
Age < 18 years
No living will known in the context of the resuscitation situation
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Purpose of the study: How do medical and non-medical rescue service staff deal with living wills presented during out-of-hospital resuscitation and what problems exist in the implementation of the documents presented?<br>For this purpose, the staff members are interviewed with a questionnaire after a resuscitation and are asked to indicate at which point in time aa living will was presented and what influence it had on the further course of treatment (e.g. termination of resuscitation). Furthermore, potential difficulties in dealing with the presented living will are asked for.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method umber of resuscitations with presentation of a living will compared to all resuscitations