Clinical trial NCT00472498: Comparison on the Efficacy of a Monophasic
Official title: Comparison on the Efficacy of a Monophasic, Manually Operated Defibrillator to That of a Biphasic Automatic External Defibrillator in the Hospital Setting.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Conditions: Cardiac Arrest
Keywords: Cardiac Arrest
Biphasic Defibrillator
Lead sponsor: Emory University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2007-05-11
Enrollment: 95
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients who are hospitalized at the Atlanta VAMC hospital.

Brief summary: The central purpose of this study is to compare the clinical outcomes of patients who suffered a cardiac arrest while hospitalized at the VA and were resuscitated after biphasic defibrillators were implemented in 2001 to clinical outcomes of patients who suffered cardiac arrest before 2001.

Detailed description: The central purpose of this study is to compare the clinical outcomes of patients who suffered a cardiac arrest while hospitalized at the VA and were resuscitated after biphasic defibrillators were implemented in 2001 to clinical outcomes of patients who suffered cardiac arrest before 2001.

This study will retrospectively collect and analyze clinical data related to the Atlanta VA Medical Center, a member of the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, to assess clinical parameters in cardiac arrest survivors.

This study focuses on collecting data retrospectively in regard to cardiac arrest patients to discern what factors are playing a role in patient survival after cardiac arrest. Such data will help hospitals and physicians to improve quality of care in patients at risk for cardiac arrest as well as to implement strategies to reduce such events or improve management of these high-risk patients in order to save lives.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Clinical outcomes of patients who suffered a cardiac arrest while hospitalized and were resuscitated after biphasic defibrillators were implemented in 2001 to clinical outcomes of patients who suffered cardiac arrest before 2001.

Exclusion Criteria:

Biphasic defibrillators were implemented Cardiac arrest before 2001

Primary outcomes:
measure: s who suffered a cardiac arrest while hospitalized at the VA and were resuscitated
timeFrame: Information on patients who suffered cardiac arrest before 2001
Secondary outcomes:
measure: This study is observational.
timeFrame: Comparison before and after 2001
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: US Department of Veterans Affairs
name: Samuel C Dudley, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Zafari AM, Zarter SK, Heggen V, Wilson P, Taylor RA, Reddy K, Backscheider AG, Dudley SC Jr. A program encouraging early defibrillation results in improved in-hospital resuscitation efficacy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 Aug 18;44(4):846-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.04.054.
citation: Bloom HL, Shukrullah I, Cuellar JR, Lloyd MS, Dudley SC Jr, Zafari AM. Long-term survival after successful inhospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. Am Heart J. 2007 May;153(5):831-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.02.011.