Heart Monitoring Device After Acute Myocardium Infarction

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Interventions: Device: No heart monitor; Device: Heart monitor

• Registration Number: NCT03494751
• Lead Sponsor: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Brief Summary

Verify the effectiveness of a Heart Monitor in preventing events in patients over 18 years after acute myocardial infarction in a clinical unit. Patients with neurological disease or congenital heart disease we excluded from the study.

Detailed Description

Heart Monitor can detect early intercurrences. Objective: To verify the effectiveness of a Heart Monitoring system in preventing events in patients after acute myocardial infarction. Methodology: This is a randomized clinical trial to be developed in a clinical unit and will include patients over 18 years , post-acute myocardial infarction who were transferred from the ICU emergency or hemodynamic to clinical unit. Patients with neurological disease or congenital heart disease will be excluded from the study.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-01-22
• Status Verified: 2018-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-04-04
• Study First Posted: 2018-04-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-04-04
• Last Update Posted: 2019-04-08
• Study Start: 2019-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-09-01
• Study Completion: 2020-07-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 358

Inclusion Criteria

• patients over 18 years
• patients post-acute myocardial infarctium

Exclusion Criteria

• patients with neurological disease
• patients with congenital heart disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
No Heart Monitor	No heart monitor	No heart monitor device in the patients with myocardial infarction (control).
Heart Monitor	Heart monitor	We used the device (heart monitor) in the patients with myocardial infarction.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Heart rhythm monitoring	One year	Evaluating the effectiveness of a heart monitoring device in the prevention and detection of events in patients after acute myocardial infarction