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Survival Study After Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest

NCT02184468 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 6000

Last updated 2014-07-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if dual dispatch of ambulance, fire fighters and/or police in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), can reduce the time to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation, thus increasing survival.

Conditions

  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

OTHER

Simultaneously dispatch of firefighters and/or police in case of OHCA

In case of OHCA, firefighters and/or police trained in CPR and equipped with AEDs will be dispatched in parallel with EMS in nine counties in Sweden.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine in Norway

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Swedish Heart Lung Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions

    collaborator OTHER

  • Karolinska Institutet

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Leif Svensson, MD, PhD · Center for Resuscitation Science, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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