Clinical trial NCT02203435: The Patient Characteristics and Mortality of Code Blue Calls
Official title: The Characteristics of the Blue-code Calls; Five Years Survey.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Demographics of the Patients Evaluated by Code Blue Call
Keywords: code blue
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
APACHE
Lead sponsor: Umraniye Education and Research Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2014-07-29
Enrollment: 1050
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 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.Retrospective examination was made of the Code Blue notification forms which were completed by the anaesthesiologist as Code Blue team leader of the hospital.

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.

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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Primary outcomes:
measure: mortality of blue-codes
timeFrame: 5 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: the demographics of blue code admissions
timeFrame: 5 years
Other outcomes:
measure: the rate of successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation
timeFrame: 5 years
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Istanbul Umraniye Education and Research Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Istanbul Umraniye Education and Research Hospital
name: Nurten Bakan, assoc prof
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: 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.
citation: 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.
citation: 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.