Cardiac Rehab Retrospective Review (CR3)

Medical University of Graz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ventricular Fibrillation; Ventricular Arrythmia; Heart Failure; Sudden Cardiac Death; Ventricular Tachycardia

Treatments: Other: cardiac rehabilitation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT04675957

90D0204

Details and patient eligibility

About

All patients enrolled in the Austrian LifeVest Registry will be retrospectively screened for successfully completed ambulatory or stationary rehabilitation program. Baseline characteristics, complete rehab data, outcomes and follow up data, as well as wearable cardioverter defibrillator(WCD)-derived data will be collected from these patients.

Specifically, performance data from the start of the exercise training (ET) will be compared to the end of ET; including type of training, exertion, time and duration will be collected. In addition, WCD recorded data such as automatically and manually recorded ECGs, compliance, and TRENDS data will be collected.

Enrollment: 55 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Prescribed WCD as part of the Austrian WCD registry population from 2014-2018
• Partial (>50%) or full completion of a rehabilitation program when wearing the WCD in Austria
• ≥18 years old and able to give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• none