Developing and Testing Drone-Delivered AEDs for Cardiac Arrests In Rural America

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Conditions studied: Cardiac Arrest, Sudden Cardiac Arrest

In brief

The overall goal of this project is to design, develop, and pilot test an emergency healthcare drone delivery system suitable for rural communities that can deliver AEDs to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) locations more rapidly than can be achieved with current first responder and EMS systems. The goal is to determine whether this method of AED delivery can be achieved rapidly enough to justify a future clinical trial directly testing its ability to improve OHCA survival.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06229418

Run by

Duke University

People needed

128

Starts

2025-09-08

Expected to finish

2027-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-14

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patients 18 years of age or older in the CARES registry who suffer cardiac arrest before arrival of a 911-responder of non-traumatic cause, including patients who receive an AED shock by a bystander prior to the arrival of 911 responders.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients in the CARES registry who have a traumatic cause of cardiac arrest.

Where it is running

• Forsyth County — Clemmons, North Carolina, United States (enrolling)

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