NCT04784117

Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Epidemiology and Outcomes in Kaunas 2016-2021

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rate is common problem, because of high mortality rate. It is not clear incidence rate, epidemiology and outcomes in Lithuania and Kaunas city included.

Detailed description

This data reported according to UTSTEIN guidelines could be compared with other countries from the region although not much data is available, but it will be a baseline for future references about processes in patient management, demographics, incidence rate and OHCA outcomes.

Conditions

• Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dispatcher protocol change	In the beginning of 2019 dispatcher protocol was changed to shorten the time of death detection

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2022-12-31
• First posted: 2021-03-05
• Last updated: 2023-03-24

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Lithuania