PreCoCa - "Prehospital Cooling With Cool-Caps"

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Heart Arrest

Treatments: Device: Application of cool cap after primary successful CPR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00398671

PreCoCa-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study shall investigate the feasibility of the use of cool-caps in the preclinical setting in patients with successful primary cardio-pulmonary resuscitation Hypothesis: cool-caps are efficient and feasible to use in the preclinical setting in patients after successful CPR.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients with primary successful CPR

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18
• Pregnancy
• Severe bleeding or severe trauma
• Body core temperature < 34 degrees celsius