Status:
COMPLETED
European Registry on STEMI Patients Transferred for PCI With Upstream Use of Abciximab - EuroTransfer Registry
Lead Sponsor:
Jagiellonian University
Collaborating Sponsors:
Foundation for Medical Research in Krakow, Poland
Conditions:
ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
EUROTRANSFER Registry is a prospective, international, web-based European Registry on Patients with ST-Elevation MI Transferred for Mechanical Reperfusion (PCI) with a Special Focus on Upstream Use of...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- PATIENTS:
- All consecutive STEMI patients \>=18years arriving to the Cath Lab hospital (invasive facility center) from transfer.
- Transfer with respect to this registry is defined as patients that reach the Cath Lab hospital:
- transferred from a surrounding regional community hospitals that the Cath Lab hospital has an established referral pattern with or
- after being picked-up by an ambulance which is equipped/staffed to provide specific medical therapy (like prehospital thrombolysis or upstream abciximab). Usually these have a physician or specifically trained nurse on board.
- CENTRES:
- Provide 24 hour/7 days on duty PCI service.
- Has an established regional hospital referral network with \>=8 patients/month arriving from transfer (as defined above).
- A rate of \>=10% of these transfer patients who receive upstream abciximab before or during transfer to the Cath Lab hospital. Start of abciximab in the ER or CCU of the Cath Lab hospital will not be considered as upstream start of abciximab.
Exclusion
- Patients who arrive to the Cath Lab from other pathways than those specified above (a. and b.), e.g. those who come by ambulances that do not provide specific medical therapy or arrive directly to the ER of the Cath Lab hospital by own feet/car will not be included in this registry.
- Patients from controlled clinical trials shall be included as long as their actual treatment is fully known. Thus, participants from randomized trials with blinded treatment cannot be included in this registry.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2005
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
End Date :
February 1 2007
Estimated Enrollment :
1800 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00378391
Start Date
November 1 2005
End Date
February 1 2007
Last Update
June 20 2007
Active Locations (15)
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1
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Helsinki, Finland
2
Schwarzwald-Baar Klinikum Villingen-Schwenningen GmbH
Villingen, Germany
3
San Donato Hospital
Arezzo, Italy
4
Ospedale Carlo Poma
Mantova, Italy