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Arizona Prehospital CPR Quality Improvement Project

NCT01258244 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 101

Last updated 2018-01-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

OTHER

Audiovisual Feedback

EMTs will get audiovisual feedback on CPR technique during CPR

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Arizona Department of Health Services

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Guardian Medical Transport

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Mesa Fire Department

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Zoll Medical Corporation

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Valleywise Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bentley J Bobrow, MD · Arizona Department of Health Services, Maricopa Integrated Health System

Eligibility

Min Age
24 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-12-07
Primary Completion
2015-02-25
Completion
2015-02-25

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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