Status:
COMPLETED
Perioperative Cardiac Arrest and Outcome
Lead Sponsor:
Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Conditions:
Heart Arrest
Anesthesia
Eligibility:
All Genders
Brief Summary
With ethical approvement, the investigators want to assess the incidence, circumstances and outcomes of patients with perioperative cardiac arrests over a period of 8 years. Currently, there is littl...
Detailed Description
A perioperative cardiac arrest is a special form of in-hospital cardiac arrest. It was claimed that perioperative cardiac arrests are under-investigated. The spare existing data suggest incidences of ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria is a perioperative cardiac arrest between 1st January 2015 and 31st December 2021 at Bern University Hospital.
- A perioperative cardiac arrest is defined as:
- ≥5 chest compressions (direct, mechanical or extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR))
- and/or defibrillation (unsynchronised direct current (DC) shock for ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (pVT) either - external or internal defibrillation with manual or Automated External Defibrillation (AED), shocks by implanted cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for VF/pVT, precordial thump)
- In a patient having a procedure under the care of an anaesthesia team (nurse or anaesthesiologist) at the Bern University Hospital: General anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia/ analgesia, sedation, local anaesthesia or monitored anaesthesia care
- Regional block performed by anaesthesiologist outside of operating room
- Obstetric analgesia including remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).
- Exclusion Criteria:
- A perioperative cardiac arrest before 1st January 2015 or after 31st December 2021
- \<5 chest compressions (direct, mechanical or extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR))
- All in-hospital cardiac arrests, that occur without being under anaesthesia care
- Patients already admitted to a hospital with a cardiac arrest (out-of hospital cardiac arrests)
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 14 2022
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 25 2023
Estimated Enrollment :
240 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05316779
Start Date
April 14 2022
End Date
October 25 2023
Last Update
October 27 2023
Active Locations (1)
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University Hospital Bern
Bern, Switzerland, 3010