sterarcher / ohca-registry-slovenia

Open-source project to create OHCA registry for Slovenia, that can be also used elsewhere.

OHCA registry Slovenia - pilot project

About

This is an interdisciplinary student project. It is run by University of Maribor Faculty of medicine. Our goal is to develop an open-source software to help track and analyse OHCA.

⚙️ In depth documentation can be found on our WIKI. ⚙️

OHCA

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) describes the loss of mechanical cardiac function and the absence of systemic circulation. Time is crucial, with a lack of perfusion leading to continual cell death; with each second that passes the possibility of a good outcome decreases. Despite a long history of trying to improve how we manage OHCA, survival remains dismally low. Only over the past 5 years have clinicians begun to see meaningful improvements in prognosis and neurological outcomes. Globally, it is estimated that on average, less than 10% of all patients with OHCA will survive.

Lancet T. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a unique medical emergency. The Lancet. 2018 Mar 10;391(10124):911.

Utstein 2015 OHCA reporting template

The Utstein Style is a set of guidelines for uniform reporting of cardiac arrest. The Utstein Style was first proposed for emergency medical services in 1991. The name derives from a 1990 conference of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Academy of Anesthesiology, the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, and related national societies, held at the Utstein Abbey on the island of Mosterøy, Norway.

You can access the complete consensus article here.

Data sources

Data flow is only in Slovenian for now.

Funding

This project was funded by University of Maribor Faculty of medicine for 4 months (1st of March to 30th of June).

Collaborations

We would like to thank Emergency Healthcare Dispatch service centre in Maribor and company Computel for helping us with our project.

Licensing

This project is licensed under the AGPL v3 license. The source code up to and including commit 9471cd is licensed under the MIT license.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank:

• System Software Laboratory for lending us their IT infrastructure
• Štefan Baebler for giving us technical advice
• Joh Dokler for giving us technical advice
• Eva Zupan Horaček for navigating us through designing a user friendly paper form and giving us UX advice in general