Arizona Prehospital CPR Quality Improvement Project

Completed

Conditions studied: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

In brief

The quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) provided to patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is often suboptimal. There now exist monitors/defibrillators that allow for the measurement and real time feedback of the quality of chest compressions and ventilations. In addition to giving the prehospital provider the benefit of real time CPR quality feedback via voice and visual cues, the CPR quality data acquired using these devices can be utilized as part of an on-going quality assurance/quality improvement program. The first objective of the proposed project is to quantify the quality of chest compressions and ventilations provided in the state of Arizona to patients with OHCA and to determine whether the quality of CPR is related to patient outcome from OHCA. A second objective of this project is to determine whether use of audiovisual feedback improves both CPR quality and patient outcome in the pre-hospital setting.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01258244
Run by
Valleywise Health
People needed
101
Starts
2010-12-07
Expected to finish
2015-02-25
Last updated by the study team
2018-01-25

Who can join

Age: 24 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

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Where it is running

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