Trial of Mobile External Defibrillator for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in Singapore.
- Conditions
- Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)
- Registration Number
- NCT07042061
- Lead Sponsor
- Singapore General Hospital
- Brief Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn the feasibility of equipping the volunteer community responders (VCR) with the mobile external automated defibrillators (mAEDs) for the management of adults experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients. It will also provide early signals if this enhanced system can help increase the frequency of defibrillation and doing it earlier. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Can equipped VCRs apply mAEDs more frequently and earlier to potentially get more patients successfully resuscitated?
* Is this system enhancement is feasible in the long run.
Participants, the VCRs, will:
* Carry a 450 gm mAED with them all the time for up to an year and use it on an OHCA patient if and when alerted to help.
* They will hand over this single-use battery-operated device to the EMS crew for data retrieval and potential replacement
* They will be interviewed for their experience of being equipped and use of the mAED.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1000
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Feasibility of a full scale trial Through study completion, an average of 1 year A validated AIM/FIM tool will be used to collect perceptions of the users and managers using a likert scale measurement reporting on feasibility and acceptability of the intervention
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Qualitative experiences of CFR elicited through semi-structured interviews 1 year Responses of the patient's relatives regarding the use of the device by CFRs before and after the usage as perceived by the CFRs
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