Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning on Atrial Fibrillation After Electrocardioversion (PRECON-AF)

St. Josefs-Hospital Wiesbaden GmbH

Status: Completed

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments: Procedure: Sham preconditioning; Procedure: Remote ischemic preconditioning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05342220

PRECON

Details and patient eligibility

About

Remote ischemic preconditioning is one way to influence the success of therapy in cardiovascular patients. By means of remote ischemic preconditioning the incidence of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery was reduced by 54%. The investigators aim to investigate the effect of ischemic preconditioning in an easy-to-perform protocol with regard to the recurrence of atrial fibrillation after electrical cardioversion.

Enrollment: 240 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation who give written informed consent to participate in the study
• Age > 18 years
• Consent capacity

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 18 years
• Pregnancy
• Lack of consent capacity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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240 participants in 2 patient groups

Remote Ischemic Preconditioning

Active Comparator group

Description:

Remote ischemic preconditioining

Treatment:

Procedure: Remote ischemic preconditioning

Control

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Sham preconditioning

Treatment:

Procedure: Sham preconditioning