Selection of Shock Energy in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Sudden Cardiac Death; Arrhythmia; Survival

• Registration Number: NCT00472147
• Lead Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Brief Summary

Sudden cardiac death is the most frequent cause of death in industrialized countries. The most efficient interventiont in ventricular fibrillation is defibrillation in an appropriate timely manner. But since the intervention of defibrillation the optimal shock energy is unknown. As a too low energy is not able to terminate ventricular fibrillation a too high energy may cause asystole wich jeopardizes survival itself. We study the efficacy of different shock energies on the termination of ventricular fibrillatiion and survival.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2007-05
• Study First Submitted: 2007-05-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-05-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2007-05-10
• Study First Posted: 2007-05-11
• Last Update Posted: 2007-05-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• out of hospital sudden cardiac death
• ventricular fibrillation

Exclusion Criteria

• non cardiac death
• asystole

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
termination of vf survival

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
resulting rhythm CPC score

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Charité campus Benjamin Franklin; 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany