Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01214460
Impact of Medical Emergency Team and EMS in Tampere University Hospital
Impact of Medical Emergency Team and EMS on ICU Readmissions and Sudden Cardiac Arrests in Tampere University Hospital
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 10,000 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Tampere University Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
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.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-07-01
- Completion
- 2019-09-26
- First posted
- 2010-10-05
- Last updated
- 2019-09-27
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Finland
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01214460. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.