Dealing with living wills by medical and non-medical emergency service personnel in the context of out-of-hospital cardiovascular arrest

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00031586

Enrollment

150

Registered

2023-03-30

Start date

2023-05-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-10-06

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Conditions

I46

Interventions

Group 1: Medical and non-medical emergency service personnel

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Employee at DRK Rettungsdienst Mittelhessen gGmbH Age = 18 years Involvement in a resuscitation situation Living will presented or requested by the rescue team

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Not an employee of DRK Rettungsdienst Mittelhessen gGmbH Age < 18 years No living will known in the context of the resuscitation situation

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Purpose of the study: How do medical and non-medical rescue service staff deal with living wills presented during out-of-hospital resuscitation and what problems exist in the implementation of the documents presented? For this purpose, the staff members are interviewed with a questionnaire after a resuscitation and are asked to indicate at which point in time aa living will was presented and what influence it had on the further course of treatment (e.g. termination of resuscitation). Furthermore, potential difficulties in dealing with the presented living will are asked for.	—

Measure

Time frame

Purpose of the study: How do medical and non-medical rescue service staff deal with living wills presented during out-of-hospital resuscitation and what problems exist in the implementation of the documents presented? For this purpose, the staff members are interviewed with a questionnaire after a resuscitation and are asked to indicate at which point in time aa living will was presented and what influence it had on the further course of treatment (e.g. termination of resuscitation). Furthermore, potential difficulties in dealing with the presented living will are asked for.

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Number of resuscitations with presentation of a living will compared to all resuscitations	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactChristian Volberg

Universitätsklinikum Marburg, Klinik für Anästhesie und Intensivtherapie

christian@volberg.de+49 6421 58 64934

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026