Risk Stratification of Patients Presenting With Cardiac Arrest

Completed

Conditions studied: Cardiac Arrest

In brief

Method: Single center, prospective, non-randomized, unblinded case series of all patients presenting with a cardiac arrest. The proposed study will collect data on all comatose patients presenting with cardiac arrest. The primary end point is death from any cause at 30 days from admission. Significance: Develop criteria to guide an invasive strategy for comatose patients presenting with cardiac arrest, and so avoid ineffective or even futile therapy which carry its own significant risks for patients in the future. The criteria, in turn, can serve as the basis for a prospective, randomized trial in the future.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02738099

Run by

Essentia Health

People needed

100

Starts

2016-04-01

Expected to finish

2020-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-05-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age greater than or equal to 18 years
• Presumed cardiac etiology of arrest
• GCS ≤ 819,20
• Initial presentation to an outside facility or to the emergency room of the receiving facility.

You may not qualify if…

• Presumed non-cardiac etiology of arrest including trauma, pulmonary embolus, sepsis, respiratory failure.
• GCS > 9
• Transfer time from arrest to receiving facility greater than 12 hours
• Cardiac arrest occurring after admission to either the outside facility or receiving facility.
• Patient pronounced dead prior to arrival to the receiving facility emergency room.

Where it is running

• St. Mary's MedicalCenter — Duluth, Minnesota, United States

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