NCT02625883

Out-of-Hospital Resuscitation in Winterthur - an Outcome Study

Out-of-Hospital Resuscitation in an Urban Setting in Switzerland - an Outcome Study and Cost Effectiveness Analysis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 151 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kantonsspital Winterthur KSW · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators will retrospectively examine all patients with out-of-hospital resuscitation by the emergency medical Team (EMT) from the Kantonsspital Winterthur in the year 2013 with a two year follow-up and a structured interview about Quality of life. Furthermore, the costs generated by the local health system are analysed.

Detailed description

The Primary objective of this study is to evaluate the Quality of out-of-Hospital resuscitation by the ambulance Service from the Kantonsspital Winterthur including a 2-year follow-up of the survivors. In this follow-up we evaluate the Quality of life by a validated questionnaire. The following endpoints will be retrospectively analysed: time-to-Response Interval; Initial cardiac rhythm; medications given; number of Defibrillations; return of spontaneous circulation, Overall costs for the local health System Furthermore length of hospital-stay, survival until Hospital discharge, one-year survival, Quality of life two years after resuscitation and total costs will be analysed.

Conditions

• Resuscitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Interview	Interview by validated Quality-of-life-questionnaire

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-30
• Completion: 2019-10-30
• First posted: 2015-12-09
• Last updated: 2020-02-26