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Automatic Ventilation in Prehospital Resuscitation on OHCA

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Interventions
Device: Manual ventilation
Device: Automatic ventilation
Registration Number
NCT06067204
Lead Sponsor
National Taiwan University Hospital
Brief Summary

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to compare prehospital ventilation strategies in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The intervention group is automatic ventilation and the control group is manual ventilation. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. How does automatic ventilation affect OHCA patients' survival and prognosis comparing to manual ventilation.

2. What are the differences on resuscitation qualities between automatic ventilation and manual ventilation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
514
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age over 18 years old at the time of occurrence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
  • Attended by the Hsinchu County Fire Department for emergency medical assistance.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Pregnant women.
  • OHCA caused by trauma.
  • Return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) observed at the scene.
  • Clearly deceased at the scene (reaching conditions such as decomposition, rigor mortis, severe burns, decapitation, evisceration, or trunk fracture).
  • Refusal of medical transportation by family members.
  • No placement of an advanced airway throughout the procedure.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Manual ventilationManual ventilationAfter the advanced airway is placed, a bag valve mask resuscitator will be connected and provides ventilation in every 6 seconds by the emergency medical technician.
Automatic ventilationAutomatic ventilationAfter the advanced airway is placed, an automatic pneumatic ventilator will be connected and provides ventilation in every 6 seconds.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The percentage of any return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC)2 hours

The patient achieved ROSC in prehospital or inhospital resuscitation.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The percentage of sustained ROSC in 24 hoursup to 24 hours

The patient survives for 24 hours after arriving the hospital.

The percentage of epinephrine injectionup to 1 hour

Whether the patient has epinephrine injected in the prehospital setting.

The satisfaction of emergency medical technician (EMT) during the dispatchup to 5 hours

The outcome contained five questions:

* More convenient to use

* Shorter time required to complete ventilation (from advanced airway placement to the start of ventilation)

* Smoother patient transport process

* Ability to perform more emergency medical techniques

* Overall satisfaction with the execution of emergency medical tasks

The EMTs answer in the 5-level scale (highly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, highly agree)

The percentage of intravenous catheter placementup to 1 hour

Whether the patient has an IV catheter placed in the prehospital setting.

The percentage of survival to hospital dischargeup to 90 days

The patient survives to discharge from the hospital.

The percentage of favorable neurological outcome after dischargeup to 90 days

The patient survives to discharge from the hospital with Cerebral Performance Categories Scale 1 or 2.

Chest compression fractionup to 1 hour

The chest compression fraction during prehospital resuscitation recorded by the monitor.

The percentage of pneumothoraxup to 3 days

Unilateral, bilateral or tension pneumothorax which might be associated with the ventilation strategy.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital Hsinchu Branch

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

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