Table 1.
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | Total | Mean | SD | |
| Number of teams participating | 98 | 103 | 105 | 106 | |||
| Population represented (%) | 7350 360 (70.2) | 7 752 623 (74.0) | 8 138 60 (77.7) | 8 186 430 (78.2) | |||
| Data sets = deployments | 119 119 | 133 133 | 147 220 | 162 724 | 562 196 | 140 549 | 18 712 |
| Evaluable deployments (%) | 114 725 (96.31) | 126 106 (94.72) | 139 933 (95.04) | 144 069 (88.54) | 410 108 | 131 208 | 13 407 |
| Patients treated | 107 175 | 117 598 | 130.270 | 134 700 | 489 743 | 122 436 | 12 491 |
| NACA IV to VII (%) | 50 728 (47.34) | 58 184 (49.48) | 65284 (47.97) | 68 765 (51.05) | 242 961 | ||
| Deployments/1000 inhabitants/year | 16.2 | 17.2 | 18.1 | 19.9 | |||
| p-Value | |||||||
| Delta-MEES present (%) | 63 988 (75.3) | 68 617 (72.89) | 71 860 (68.54) | 75 504 (69.07) | <0.001 | ||
| Arrival time ≥ 15 minutes (%) | 98 418 (91.83) | 107 978 (91.82) | 119 396 (91.65) | 123 989 (92.05) | 0.8625 | ||
| Children under 7 years (%) | 3901 (3.6) | 4164 (3.5) | 4611 (5.5) | 4697 (3.5) | |||
| Children under 7/1000 inhabitants/year | 0.531 | 0.537 | 0.567 | 0.574 | <0.001 | ||
| Patients >75 years (%) | 31 238 (29.1) | 34 836 (29.6) | 39 565 (30.4) | 42 137 (31.3) | |||
| Patients >75 years/1000 inhabitants/year | 4.25 | 4.493 | 4.862 | 5.147 | <0.001 | ||
| Diagnosis: myocardial infarction (%) | 6666 (6.2) | 8970 (7.6) | 10 762 (8.3) | 11 858 (8.8) | |||
| Proportion thereof with 12-channel ECG (%) | 3468 (52) | 6182 (68.9) | 8554 (79.5) | 10 214 (86.1) | <0.001 | ||
| Diagnosis: myocardial infarction/1000 inhabitants/year | 0.907 | 1.157 | 1.322 | 1.448 | <0.001 | ||
| Resuscitations | 5188 | 5798 | 5802 | 5008 | |||
| Successful resuscitation (%) | 1461 (28.16) | 1687 (29.1) | 1696 (29.23) | 1705 (34.05) | |||
| Unsuccessful resuscitation | 3727 | 4111 | 4106 | 3303 | |||
| Resuscitations/100000 inhabitants/year | 71 | 75 | 71 | 61 | <0.001 | ||
| Successful resuscitations/100000 inhabitants/year | 19.88 | 21.76 | 20.84 | 20.83 | 0.0957 | ||
| Medications per patient | 1.16 | 1.2 | 1.18 | 1.19 | <0.001 | ||
| Total medications given | 124 657 | 140 913 | 153 247 | 160 688 | |||
| Analgesics (%) | 25 600 (23.89) | 28 070 (23.87) | 30 357 (23.3) | 32 138 (23.86) | |||
| Sedatives (%) | 18 345 (17.12) | 19. 78 (16.73) | 20 928 (16.07) | 21 351 (15.85) | |||
| Heparin or ASA (%) | 16 324 (15.23) | 17 506 (14.89) | 18 492 (14.2) | 19 100 (14.1) | |||
| Antiarrhythmic agents (%) | 8348 (7.79) | 8037 (6.83) | 8088 (6.21) | 10 955 (8.16) | |||
| Peripheral vein cannulation (%) | 87 724 (81.85) | 97 227 (82.68) | 107 474 (82.5) | 110 986 (82.39) |
SD, standard deviation