Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Trial Assessing the Survival Impact of Phone Advice (CONTAC)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Other: Protocol phone advice; Other: Usual phone advice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02934867

CONTAC R/2015/50

Details and patient eligibility

About

Medical call center have no phone advice protocol within out of hospital cardiac arrest in France. The purpose of the present study is to compare a group of patients with protocol phone advice delivered by the dispatchers ("CONTARM" group) versus usual phone advice ( "CONTHAB" group). Comparison will be performed on survival to seven days. The hypothesis is that CONTARM group has an higher survival at seven days. A second goal is to measure the survival to 15 and 30 days. The trial is randomized, controlled and will include 2600 patients. The patients will be enrolled in 19 hospitals in France.

Enrollment: 729 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• > 18 years old
• initial call to 15
• out of hospital cardiac arrest
• patient proximity to witness

Exclusion criteria

• first aid professionals on site
• rigor mortis
• location not allowing resuscitation
• inability to realize actions or misunderstanding
• no flow > 5 minutes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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729 participants in 2 patient groups

CONTARM

Experimental group

Description:

Protocol phone advice

Treatment:

Other: Protocol phone advice

CONTHAB

Other group

Description:

Usual phone advice

Treatment:

Other: Usual phone advice