ACSQHC-ARCR-454

The Registry includes all patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) who were attended by NSW Ambulance clinicians since 1 January 2017. The data collected from clinical and operational records describe the pre-hospital links in the cardiac arrest 'chain of survival' (the series of steps that gives patients the best chance of surviving an OHCA).  Record linkage with the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages provides data on survival and interviews with survivors at 12 examine quality of life.

The key data fields are based on the Utstein template, which was developed to promote uniform presentation of OHCA survival data across different regions of the world. The outcomes measured are survival to hospital; survival at 30 days and quality of life at 12 months post arrest.

Key aims include: to improve service-level performance and patient safety by enhancing the quality, accessibility and timing of the information that is available to clinical decision-makers; to support research that may inform OHCA guidelines; to measure the long-term impact of OHCA on patients’ quality-of-life and functional capacity and to participate in the Australian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (Aus-ROC). Au-ROC is an epistry (epidemiological registry) that combines and compares data from OHCA registries in Australia and New Zealand to increase the understanding of the intra-regional, ambulance service and treatment factors that are associated with improved OHCA survival and outcomes.