Rationale, Methodology, Implementation, and First Results of the French Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry

Abstract

The RéAC registry is a reliable observation tool to improve public health management of OHCA. It provides relevant information to adapt or to develop diagnosis, treatments, and prognostic resources. Moreover, it enables the development of targeted awareness programs for the unique purpose of increasing the survival rates of OHCA patients.

EuReCa ONE⿿27 Nations, ONE Europe, ONE Registry

“…[3][4][5][6] During the last decades a number of registries for OHCA have been implemented in Europe. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] These registries cover varied parts of the participating countries. The greater part of Europe however is not included in a registry with the aim of continuous reporting of OHCA.…”

Can we identify termination of resuscitation criteria in cardiac arrest due to drowning: results from the French national out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest registry

“…All participating MERS use this form during the intervention. This sheet is legally approved and can be used to replace the current MMT recording forms . The data are reported in the RéAC secured database (http://www.registreac.org).…”

“…The data are reported in the RéAC secured database (http://www.registreac.org). If the patient is alive at hospital admission (regardless admission unit, patient with spontaneous cardiac activity or under mechanical chest compression), a follow‐up record sheet must also be filled in and entered in the database . Water temperature is not available via RéAC database and is retrospectively gathered on cities websites, water quality institutional websites or lifeguards online bases.…”

“…The aim of this study is to describe the cohort of persons who experience the drowning process and subsequently had their data registered in the French cardiac arrest registry (RéAC) and to identify prognostic factors for survival in order to determine advances cardiac life support (ACLS) termination criteria.…”

Using a Cardiac Arrest Registry to Measure the Quality of Emergency Medical Service Care

“…For instance, of the 28 clinical registries operating in Australia in 2009, only 1 was identified as an EMS surveillance initiative. 5 Despite a growing number of EMS agencies contributing OHCA data to clinical registries across North America, Asia, 7 and Europe, 8,9 the scope for a national OHCA registry in Australia remains in its infancy. 10 In fact, only 2 of the 8 Australian EMS organizations have reported previously registry-based methods of data capture and follow-up, 11,12 of which only the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry (VACAR) operates statewide.…”