Safety of Sports for Patients With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Arrhythmias

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00637754

0608001730

Details and patient eligibility

About

The registry will obtain information to determine the safety of sports participation for patients with defibrillators (ICDs).

Full description

Patients who are participating in sports who have defibrillators will be invited to participate in a prospective registry to determine the rate of adverse events occurring during sporting activities. Patients will be followed for four years and adverse events quantified. Yale is the coordinating center for this multicenter registry.

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• individuals between the ages of 10 and 60
• has a defibrillator
• plays a competitive/organized sport more vigorous than golf or bowling or participates in a dangerous sport

Exclusion criteria

• children under 10 years (as they engage in primarily recreational sports)
• individuals over the age of 60 years (maintain a homogenous population)
• inability to give informed consent