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Dealing with living wills by medical and non-medical emergency service personnel in the context of out-of-hospital cardiovascular arrest

Recruiting
Conditions
I46
Cardiac 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
NameTimeMethod
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
NameTimeMethod
umber of resuscitations with presentation of a living will compared to all resuscitations
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