Lutherstadt Wittenberg

This project investigates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of palliative care consultations in the Intensive care unit. Charité will implement the Working Package 2 "Europe-wide harmonized and recommended palliative care practice for ICU" of the approved HORIZON funding application EPIC, to which this ethics application refers. An accompanying anonymous employee survey (doctors/nurses) is conducted once in the intervention phase and once in the control phase in all study centers (see secondary endpoints 57-68 and 71).

This is a post market trial to be conducted at sites in Germany. The device has CE approval in the EU. The purpose of this observational registry is to collect post market data in consecutive patients treated with the IASD System II, to further evaluate efficacy, safety and quality of life outcomes as a new treatment for patients with heart failure in a "real world" practice setting.