Impact of Medical Emergency Team and EMS in Tampere University Hospital

Completed

• Conditions: Death, Sudden,Cardiac

• Registration Number: NCT01214460
• Lead Sponsor: Tampere University Hospital

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-01
• Study First Submitted: 2010-07-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-10-01
• Study First Posted: 2010-10-05
• Primary Completion: 2016-07
• Status Verified: 2019-09
• Study Completion: 2019-09-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-09-26
• Last Update Posted: 2019-09-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10000

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 yrs or older

Exclusion Criteria

• under 18 yrs

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
In-hospital mortality	patients are followed until death

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The rates of ICU readmissions	one month to six year
Patient mortality after 6 mo of discharge	one month to six year	The patients are followed 6 mo after hospital discharge which has happened in year 2010
The rates of DNAR orders	one month to six year
The number of patients EMS or medical emergency team is called to treat	one month to six years	We are going to analyze the number of MET calls and their impact on sudden cardiac arrests in TAUH. The time frame is 1st Jan 2010 -31st Dec 2015. It is known fact that well working MET team inside the hospital should decrease the sudden cardiac arrests. We also analyze the EMS calls and the ED visits in June 2015 to see if patient detoriation is related to sudden in-hospital death.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tampere University Hospital; 🇫🇮 Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland