Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Conditions
Brief 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.
Interventions
OTHERDispatcher protocol change
In the beginning of 2019 dispatcher protocol was changed to shorten the time of death detection
Sponsors
Egle Vaitkaitiene
Dinas Vaitkaitis
Asta Krikscionaitiene
Ilona Kajokaite
Nerijus Mikelionis
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
RETROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* OHCA patients of all ages more than 18 years-old with resuscitation commenced or continued by EMS personnel were included.
Exclusion criteria
* obviously dead patients, were excluded
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The detection of death will be shorter | 31 Dec 2021 |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The survival rate will increase | 31 Dec 2021 |
Countries
Lithuania
Outcome results
None listed