Effectiveness of Video-assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

University of Pecs

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Other: Video-assisted CPR; Other: Telephone-assisted CPR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05639868

Upecs_V-CPR

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sudden cardiac arrest is a major public health problem worldwide and it is one of the leading causes of death in industrialized countries. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) dispatchers play an important role to recognize cardiac arrest and give help to the lay first responder via telephone CPR (T-CPR) which improves survival rates. The current technology allows the live video connection between the scene and the dispatcher which provides the opportunity for video-assisted CPR (V-CPR) via the bystander smartphone.

Effectiveness of V-CPR has only been investigated to a limited extent. Comparing effectiveness of V-CPR (effectiveness of chest compression, time parameters eg. time to first chest compression) to T-CPR and non-instructed CPR can be useful to implement V-CPR technology.

Full description

Sudden cardiac arrest is a major public health problem worldwide and it is one of the leading causes of death in industrialized countries. EMS dispatchers play an important role to recognize cardiac arrest and give help to the lay first responder via telephone CPR (T-CPR) which improves survival rates. The current technology allows the live video connection between the scene and the dispatcher which provides the opportunity for video-assisted CPR (V-CPR) via the bystander smartphone.

Effectiveness of V-CPR has only been investigated to a limited extent. Comparing effectiveness of V-CPR (quality of chest compressions: depth, rate, hand position), time parameters: time to recognize cardiac arrest, time of check breathing, total no-flow time, to first chest compression) to T-CPR and non-instructed CPR can be useful to implement V-CPR technology.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy volunteer

Exclusion criteria

• healthcare professionals (paramedics, nurses, etc.)
• pregnant women
• people with cardio-pulmonary and musculoskeletal diseases or any other impairment that would risk harm for the volunteer while performing CPR for 2 minutes
• psychological disabilities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 3 patient groups

T-CPR

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants perform telephone-assisted CPR based on the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) 2021 guidelines.

Treatment:

Other: Video-assisted CPR

Other: Telephone-assisted CPR

V-CPR

Experimental group

Description:

Participants perform video-assisted CPR based on the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) 2021 guidelines.

Treatment:

Other: Video-assisted CPR

Other: Telephone-assisted CPR

Unassisted CPR

No Intervention group

Description:

CPR without dispatcher instructions.