The Patient Characteristics and Mortality of Code Blue Calls

NCT ID: NCT02203435

Last Updated: 2014-08-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 1050 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2014-04-30

Brief Summary

This study aimed to retrospectively examine patients evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call in our hospital between 2009 and 2013.

Primary outcome: an examination of the survival rates and demographic data of the patients evaluated as an emergency by a Code Blue call in the period 2009-2013.Secondary outcome: to determine the rates of false Code Blue calls, the clinics giving Code Blue calls and the relationship between the times of Code Blue calls and mortality.Inclusion criteria: patients throughout the whole hospital for whom a Code Blue form was completed and who were evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call.

Exclusion criteria: patients who refused treatment

Detailed Description

Retrospective examination was made of the Code Blue notification forms which were completed by the anaesthesiologist as Code Blue team leader of the hospital. The age of the patient, gender, diagnosis, the department where admitted, time of Blue Code call, reason for Blue Code call, whether or not the Blue code call was appropriate, whether or not cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered, if administered, the duration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, whether or not the patient was postoperative, whether or not the patient had been discharged from the intensive care unit and if so, how many days had passed, the APACHE II score of the patient and expected mortality, were recorded by calculation of the data on thhe Code Blue notification form and in the hospital automated system. Patients were excluded from the study if they had refused treatment or if there was no record of the parameters necessary to calculate the APACHE II score.

Conditions

Demographics of the Patients Evaluated by Code Blue Call

Study Design

• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Patients throughout the whole hospital for whom a Code Blue form was completed and who were evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who refused treatment

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• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Gulsah Karaoren

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Gulsah Karaoren

doctor

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Nurten Bakan, assoc prof

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Istanbul Umraniye Education and Research Hospital

Locations

Istanbul Umraniye Education and Research Hospital

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

References

Grimaldi D, Dumas F, Perier MC, Charpentier J, Varenne O, Zuber B, Vivien B, Pene F, Mira JP, Empana JP, Cariou A. Short- and long-term outcome in elderly patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a cohort study. Crit Care Med. 2014 Nov;42(11):2350-7. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000512.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 25054671 (View on PubMed)

Fecho K, Jackson F, Smith F, Overdyk FJ. In-hospital resuscitation: opioids and other factors influencing survival. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2009;5:961-8. doi: 10.2147/tcrm.s8121. Epub 2009 Dec 29.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 20057895 (View on PubMed)

Yang J, Howell MD. Commentary: Is the glass half empty? Code blue training in the modern era. Acad Med. 2011 Jun;86(6):680-3. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318217e969.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 21613890 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

GK1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id