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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
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Information provided by: | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00004560 |
To measure survival to hospital discharge of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in community units (e.g., apartment or office buildings, gated communities, sports venues, senior centers, shopping malls) served by trained non-medical responders using automated external defibrillators (AEDs), an approach called Public Access Defibrillation, compared to units receiving the traditional optimum community standard of care (i.e., rescuers trained to recognize a cardiac emergency, call 911, and initiate CPR).
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Arrhythmia Heart Arrest Heart Diseases Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Fibrillation Death, Sudden, Cardiac |
Device: defibrillator |
Phase III |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Treatment, Randomized |
Study Start Date: | September 1999 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | February 2004 |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 75 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
No eligibility criteria
Study ID Numbers: | 128 |
Study First Received: | February 9, 2000 |
Last Updated: | December 1, 2005 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00004560 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
Death Heart Diseases Myocardial Ischemia Vascular Diseases Heart Arrest Ischemia Necrosis |
Death, Sudden Paroxysmal ventricular fibrillation Death, Sudden, Cardiac Infarction Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Fibrillation Arrhythmias, Cardiac |
Pathologic Processes Cardiovascular Diseases |