Circulation Improving Resuscitation Care (CIRC)
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Cardiac Arrest, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
In brief
During resuscitation of out of hospital cardiac arrest patients the use of a mechanical chest compression device Autopulse will improve survival compared to manual compressions.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00597207
- Run by
- Zoll Medical Corporation
- People needed
- 4231
- Starts
- 2008-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-07-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patents aged 18 years (or local age of consent) or more who suffer non-traumatic arrest of presumed cardiac etiology in an out-of-hospital setting and who do not meet any of the exclusion criteria below.
You may not qualify if…
- Traumatic arrest (blunt, penetrating, burns)
- Arrest due to exsanguinations, strangulation, smoke inhalation, drug overdose, electrocution, hanging, drowning.
- Known or clinically apparent pregnancy
- Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate (DNAR) orders
- Apparent patient weight more than 225 kg (500 lbs)
- Wards of the state
- Prisoner
- CPR device other than AutoPulse
- Patients who are reached after 16 minutes after the time of emergency call (911). This exclusion is determined at the time of CRF abstraction, not during treatment of the patient.
- If patient is unaccompanied, or accompanied by a person or persons unfamiliar with their his-tory, determination of these exclusion criteria will, perforce, be left to the best estimation of the rescue personnel. At no time, should an attempt to determine these criteria be allowed to delay the administration of life-saving treatment.
- These criteria will be determined in the best estimation of the rescue personnel, or if the AutoPulse signals that the patient is outside the parameters for AutoPulse deployment.
Where it is running
- Hillsborough Fire Rescue — Tampa, Florida, United States
- Houston Fire — Houston, Texas, United States
- Gold Cross EMS — Menasha, Wisconsin, United States
- Vienna EMS — Vienna, Austria
- Nijmegen EMS — Nijmegen, Netherlands
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