Selection of Shock Energy in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Survival; Arrhythmia; Sudden Cardiac Death

Treatments: Procedure: shock efficacy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00472147

CBF-2007002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sudden cardiac death is the most frequent cause of death in industrialized countries. The most efficient interventiont in ventricular fibrillation is defibrillation in an appropriate timely manner. But since the intervention of defibrillation the optimal shock energy is unknown. As a too low energy is not able to terminate ventricular fibrillation a too high energy may cause asystole wich jeopardizes survival itself. We study the efficacy of different shock energies on the termination of ventricular fibrillatiion and survival.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• out of hospital sudden cardiac death
• ventricular fibrillation

Exclusion criteria

• non cardiac death
• asystole

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind