Heart Monitoring Device After Acute Myocardium Infarction

Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Acute Myocardial Infarction

Treatments: Device: No heart monitor; Device: Heart monitor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03494751

5391/17

Details and patient eligibility

About

Verify the effectiveness of a Heart Monitor in preventing events in patients over 18 years after acute myocardial infarction in a clinical unit. Patients with neurological disease or congenital heart disease we excluded from the study.

Full description

Heart Monitor can detect early intercurrences. Objective: To verify the effectiveness of a Heart Monitoring system in preventing events in patients after acute myocardial infarction. Methodology: This is a randomized clinical trial to be developed in a clinical unit and will include patients over 18 years , post-acute myocardial infarction who were transferred from the ICU emergency or hemodynamic to clinical unit. Patients with neurological disease or congenital heart disease will be excluded from the study.

Enrollment: 358 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients over 18 years
• patients post-acute myocardial infarctium

Exclusion criteria

• patients with neurological disease
• patients with congenital heart disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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358 participants in 2 patient groups

Heart Monitor

Experimental group

Description:

We used the device (heart monitor) in the patients with myocardial infarction.

Treatment:

Device: Heart monitor

No Heart Monitor

Active Comparator group

Description:

No heart monitor device in the patients with myocardial infarction (control).

Treatment:

Device: No heart monitor