Active clinical trials for "Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest"

The registry enroll all the patients who suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Lombardia Region with a follow-up up to ten years after the event.

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a public health problem, affecting 50,000 people per year in France. Intervention time (initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and advanced CPR) are associated with a better prognosis. Despite this, the latest published data show a very low overall survival (5%). Our territory has only three centers distributed hospitals with both a 24-hour coronary angiography platform and an intensive care unit. Finally, although 60% of ACEHs receive coronary angiography in the Île de France region, it is performed on only 15% of patients in the Reims University Hospital. Therefore, it seems essential to conduct a study on the reality of the support of ACEH and to study the clinical and biological factors as well as the influence of the geographical distribution of specialized technical platforms on the prognosis of patients.

In Germany, 70.000 to 100.000 patients suffer from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) every year. More than half of these are due to cardiac causes. Despite the medical progress over the last decades, rates of survival with good neurological outcome remain low. For many below-mentioned issues, no adequate evidence from randomized trials is available. Therefore, a systematic and standardized recording of the pre-clinical, clinical and post-clinical treatment course and of the clinical outcomes of OHCA patients is essential to improve patient care. Aim of the German Cardiac Arrest Registry (G-CAR) is to achieve a better understanding of the disease entity, leading to an optimized treatment of OHCA patients. The recorded data include information on demographic and psychosocial aspects, course of the disease, clinical, laboratory and other examinations as well as treatment modalities in patients with OHCA due to a cardiac cause.

Identification of Causes and Risk Factors for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest through Development of Prediction Model and Novel Biomarkers Study Objectives: To identify causes and risk factors of OHCA incidence that are associated with chronic diseases and health behaviors To identify high risk population for OHCA incidence through development of a prediction model To develop novel biomarkers associated with OHCA incidence, survival, and disabilities

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is an important public health issue. Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, a university affiliated medical center in Taoyuan city, northern Taiwan, actively cooperated with government policy with 250 automated external defibrillators (AED) donation and implementation around many public places during period of 2012 to 2014. In addition, nearly 200 courses of first aid education and training of citizen were provided in the first and 52 courses in second program. According to the literature, a successful public AED implementation plans proceed with the following requirements: continuing education and training to improve and retain skills; maintaining a proper long-term operation of AED equipment;continued data collection of actual cases for analysis, quality control and feedback. In order to maintain the ability of emergency medical response among these 200 and more AED recipient areas, quality assurance with regular follow-up by medical directors, providing professional advice and feedback, repeat education and training should be proceed.

Differential diagnosis: ultrasound, blood gas analyse combined with examination of the patient and environment is used during Out Of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) to screen possible underlying cause of cardiac arrest. Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) in Helsinki has unraveled a protocol for performing differential diagnosis during OHCA. Our study aim is to test the feasibility of this protocol. Our study is a prospective medical record based study. The anesthesiologist operating in the HEMS unit fills a form after encounter of OHCA. Questioners focus on how long did execution of the protocol take, and the cause if the protocol was not completed.

Sudden cardiac arrests is one of the most frequent causes of death. In Switzerland every year 8000-10.000 people suffer from a cardiac arrest. The EuReCa ONE Study showed regional differences in incidence and chances of survival after cardiac arrests in Europe. The current European Resuscitation Council (ERC) resuscitation guidelines 2015 recommend extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as treatment option for therapy refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). ECMO used under cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is called eCPR (extracorporeal CPR). In the year 2018 eCPR is started to be used in Bern, Switzerland. This study investigates retrospectively the survival and neurologic outcome of patients after OHCA in the region of Bern, Switzerland from 2015-2018. The data will be used as baseline for a prospective evaluation of eCPR cases. The prospective Evaluation of e CPR will last from 2018 - 2022.

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major public health problem, with around 40,000 victims each year in France. Their survival rate remains dramatically low, at less than 10%. In the event of pre-hospital cardiac arrest, rescuers perform resuscitation techniques using equipment for which they have been trained. They perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by alternating 30 chest compressions with 2 insufflations (30/2) with a manual insufflator bag. In basic life supports, insufflations should result in chest rise, but guidelines do not specify a precise volume. Recently, medical devices have been developed that enable precise measurement of ventilatory volumes. In simulation, these devices show hyperventilation in volume and frequency in mannequins. But no clinical study has analyzed insufflator bag ventilation maneuvers in real-life situations on pre-hospital cardiac arrest patients. The aim of this study is to analyze ventilation parameters in current practice in relation to standards, and the factors influencing the quality of ventilation maneuvers.

This is a pragmatic, two-arm, open-label, prospective stepped-wedge cluster randomized control trial (SW-CRCT) looking to evaluate early intramuscular (IM) epinephrine in the management of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA).

AMSA trial is a multicenter, randomized, controlled study in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. The purpose of the study is to test the hypothesis that a real time AMSA analysis during CPR may predict the success of defibrillation and optimize the timing of defibrillation delivery. The primary end-point is the efficacy of the AMSA-CPR: termination of VF/VT with achievement of ROSC for an AMSA ≥ 15.5 mV-Hz All patients meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria and receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation are randomized into two groups: AMSA-guided CPR or standard CPR. In the AMSA-CPR group, AMSA value suggests when the rescuer should deliver the defibrillation attempt; In the Standard-CPR group, the defibrillation is delivered based on the 2015 European Resuscitation Council (ERC) CPR guidelines.