Austrian Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator Registry

Medical University of Graz

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Ventricular Dysfunction; Ventricular Fibrillation; Sudden Cardiac Arrest; Heart Failure; Sudden Death; Ventricular Tachycardia

Treatments: Other: Registry

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02816047

KardioScherr1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: The wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) is an established treatment option for patients at high risk for ventricular tachycardia / ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF), either in whom this risk may only be temporarily present, or in patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) or after VT/VF in whom an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD is currently not possible for other reasons (infection, recent MI <40days, recent PCI/CABG < 3months etc.).

Methods: Comprehensive registry including all patients in Austria who received a WCD in 2010-2016.

Full description

Observational study to describe WCD indications, event rates, inappropriate shock rates and follow up (including ICD rate, shock rate, morbidity and mortality) in all Austrian WCD patients

Enrollment: 450 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients, with a prescribed WCD according to guidelines in an austrian center