Evaluation of an smartphone app based first responder alarm in out of hospital cardiac arrest

Conditions

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Ganter J, Bakker H, Nickel S, Reichling ES, Wittmer A, Werner N, Brucklacher T, Wunderlich R, Trummer G, Busch HJ, Müller MP.

2025-12-13

10.1186/s12873-025-01441-3

Association of GPS-Based Logging and Manual Confirmation of the First Responders’ Arrival Time in a Smartphone Alerting System: An Observational Study

Julian Ganter, Jan‐Steffen Pooth, Domagoj Damjanović, Georg Trummer, Hans-Jörg Busch et al. (8 authors)

Prehospital Emergency Care2021-09-227 citations

10.1080/10903127.2021.1983094

Interventions

Group 1: Arm 1 - Patients with out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest without community first responder (CFR) alert. Group 2: Arm 2 - Patients with out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest with community first responde

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients who need to be resuscitated when the rescue service arrives

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients who are not in need of resuscitation at the arrival of the rescue service, or patients with trauma as a cause for resuscitation

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Improvement of the 30-day survival rate after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Neurological recovery; Questions about quality assurance of the system according to the specifications of the Ministry of the Interior (quality parameters, such as initial alarm radius, frequency of deployment, time advantage of app alert)	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactGeorg Trummer

UHZ Freiburg bad Krozingen

georg.trummer@universitaets-herzzentrum.de0761 2700

Outcome results

None listed