Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Dissemination Study Using Nurses and Volunteers
Completed · Phase 1/Phase 2
Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Coronary Disease, Cardiac Arrest
In brief
Each year in the United States, 300,000 people suffer from Cardiac Arrest (CA), and of them there is a 90% mortality rate. Out-of-Hospital arrests in particular have a 1-5% survival to hospital discharge. High quality CPR is crucial to lowering the mortality rate and increasing survival, yet only 15-30% of out-of-hospital CA victims receive bystander CPR. Studies have shown that prompt administration of CPR dramatically improves outcomes. In a recent study from Switzerland, lay bystander CPR doubled the survival rate at one month. Our study will look to train family members of at-risk cardiac patients in the skills of CPR through the American Heart Associations (AHA) CPR Anytime Friends and Family Personal Learning Program (CPR Anytime) to see if these family members are able to learn and perform quality CPR in the event that their family member should suffer a cardiac arrest. The unique feature of the CPR Anytime training is that it is a low-cost, self-learning, video-based program that can be completed in under 30 minutes, saving the time and expense of traditional CPR training courses. While initial work has proven that teaching CPR in hospital using the VSI kit is feasible, little research has been conducted to make the program sustainable.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01252316
- Run by
- University of Pennsylvania
- People needed
- 500
- Starts
- 2010-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-11-01
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Family Member's of Patients with known coronary disease or cardiovascular risk factors, such as history of diabetes and hypertension.
You may not qualify if…
- If someone is physically unable to undergo CPR Training
- Someone who has received CPR training in the past 2 years
Where it is running
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Pennsylvania Hospital — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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