Title | The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study: rationale and methodology for cardiac arrest patients. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1998 |
Authors | Stiell IG, Wells GA, Spaite DW, Lyver MB, Munkley DP, Field BJ, Dagnone E, Maloney JP, Jones GR, Luinstra LG, Jermyn BD, Ward R, DeMaio VJ |
Journal | Ann Emerg Med |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 180-90 |
Date Published | 1998 Aug |
ISSN Number | 0196-0644 |
Keywords | Cost-Benefit Analysis, Critical Care, Direct Service Costs, Drug Therapy, Electric Countershock, Emergency Medical Services, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Feasibility Studies, Heart Arrest, Humans, Injections, Intravenous, Intervention Studies, Intubation, Intratracheal, Life Support Care, Logistic Models, Multivariate Analysis, Neurologic Examination, Ontario, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), Patient Discharge, Quality of Life, Research Design, Retrospective Studies, Survival Rate, wounds and injuries |
Abstract | The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support Study represents the largest prehospital study yet conducted, worldwide. This study will involve more than 25,000 cardiac arrest, trauma, and critically ill patients over an 8-year period. The study will evaluate the incremental benefit of rapid defibrillation and prehospital Advanced Cardiac Life Support measures for cardiac arrest survival and the benefit of Advanced Life Support for patients with traumatic injuries and other critically ill prehospital patients. This article describes the OPALS study with regard to the rationale and methodology for cardiac arrest patients. |
Alternate Journal | Ann Emerg Med |
PubMed ID | 9701301 |
Faculty Reference:
Daniel W. Spaite, MD