Status:
UNKNOWN
Pre-Hospital Cooling in Cardiac Arrest Patients
Lead Sponsor:
Emergency Medical Service of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Collaborating Sponsors:
University Hospital Hradec Kralove
Conditions:
Cardiac Arrest
Eligibility:
All Genders
Brief Summary
Type of study: Pilot prospective nonrandomized feasibility clinical study. Aim of the study: To assess the feasibility of pre-hospital therapeutic mild hypothermia in patients successfully resuscitat...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
- remaining comatose and requiring mechanical ventilation
Exclusion
- cardiac arrest of traumatic etiology
- patient conscious after short cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- coma of other origin than cardiac arrest (e.g., epileptic paroxysm, intoxication etc.)
- severe acute heart failure
- accidental hypothermia below 30°C
- bradycardia requiring transcutaneous cardiac pacing
- status Do Not Resuscitate or Do Not Intubate
- severe circulatory shock
- severe life threatening cardiac arrhythmias
- severe and life threatening bleeding
- severe sepsis
- any common opinion of intervening team of unfitness of induction of therapeutic mild hypothermia
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2007
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
August 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00915421
Start Date
July 1 2007
End Date
August 1 2009
Last Update
June 8 2009
Active Locations (2)
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Emergency Medical Service of the Central Bohemian Region
Beroun, Central Bohemia, Czechia
2
Hradec Kralove Region Emergency Medical Services, Czech republic
Hradec Králové, Region of Hradec Kralove, Czechia