CompletedNot Applicable

Effects of a New Dispatcher-Assisted Basic Life Support Training Program

South Korea18,822 participantsStarted 2014-01

Plain-language summary

Despite aggressive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, the outcome of cardiac arrest is not good. The problem is method of education. So, the investigators want to add the dispatcher-assisted CPR simulation into conventional CPR training. In this study, the study is aimed to investigate the effect of newer CPR training program.

Who can participate

Age range19 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * All out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients with presumed cardiac etiology who are 19 years of age or older and assessed and treated by EMS providers after dispatched by the EMS dispatch center will be included. Exclusion Criteria: * We will exclude patients with non-cardiac etiology, prolonged cardiac arrest with a suspected duration more than 30 minutes, cases such as livor mortis or rigor mortis, and decapitated or decomposed body, and patients who have "Do-Not-Resuscitate" card documented by doctor.

What they're measuring

Number of Participants Surviving to Hospital Discharge

Timeframe: from date of discharge, assessed up to 3 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02142387

SponsorSeoul National University Hospital

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2017-12

Results submitted2019-04-17

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