A Trial to Compare American Heart Association (AHA) and Simple (SIM)Method to Give Adenosine to Treat Supra-ventricular Tachycardia (SVT) (AHAvsSIM)

University of Pretoria (UP)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Supra-ventricular Tachycardia

Treatments: Drug: Adenosine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04392362

UPretoria

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study to compare non inferiority of giving adenosine with the simplified method vs the AHA method

Full description

tle: A randomised controlled trial of the standard versus a simplified adenosine administration method in the treatment of adult patients with supra- ventricular tachycardia (SVT

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Svt
• normal blood pressure
• normal mentation
• Give consent

Exclusion criteria

• recent coffee
• Allergy to adenosine
• Asthma
• cardiac operations

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Method of giving adenosine at 6mg then 12mg repeated twice to abort svt Intervention is giving the drug in a simplified method mixing it with 20 ml saline as a whole flush

Treatment:

Drug: Adenosine

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Giving adenosine Ising the recommended AHA two syringe method

Treatment:

Drug: Adenosine