Comparison of telemedical prehospital emergency care and conventional on-scene physician based care of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies. The adherence to current Guidelines should be researched.
Telemedically guided cases of hypertensive emergencies (april 2014 - March 2015) and urgencies are compared with a historical control group of conventional emergency medical service physician care on-scene for these scenarios. The historical control group is a time period prior to implementation of the telemedicine system and after a research project with a precursor telemedicine system. No telemedical support but only conventional on-scene EMS physician care was available (November 2013 - March 2014).
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
331
Telemedically guided care based on a standard operating procedure
University Hospital Aachen
Aachen, Germany
Blood pressure difference between initial contact and emergency room handover
Time frame: 2 hours
Difference of heart rate between initial contact and emergency room handover
Time frame: 2 hours
Magnitude of blood pressure reduction using categories
To measure guideline adherence blood pressure (BP) reductions were evaluated with four categories: no BP reduction, reduction \<= 25%, reduction \>25-30%, reduction \> 30% (BP difference between initial contact and emergency room handover)
Time frame: 2 hours
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