Video-assisted Telephone CPR With the EmergencyEye-Software - a Pilot Study

University of Cologne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Drug: telephone-assisted CPR; Device: Video-assisted CPR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03527771

EmergencyEye-POP

Details and patient eligibility

About

Technical advance as broad-bandwidth wireless internet coverage and the ubiquity utilization of smartphones has opened up new possibilities which surpass the normal audio-only telephony. High quality and real-time video-telephony is now feasible. However until now this technology hasn't been deployed in the emergency respond service.

In the hope of helping the detection of the cardiac arrest, offer the possibility to evaluate and correct via a video-instructed CPR (V-CPR) and to facilitate a fast localization of the emergency site, a new software (EmergencyEye®/RAMSES®) was developed which enables the dispatcher a video-telephony with the callers mobile terminal (smartphone) if suitable.

This technology hasn't been tested in a randomized controlled trail yet and no data exists that shows if V-CPR in comparison to T-CPR and non-instructed CPR leads to a better bystander CPR-performance.

Full description

Technical advance as broad-bandwidth wireless internet coverage and the ubiquity utilization of smartphones has opened up new possibilities which surpass the normal audio-only telephony. High quality and real-time video-telephony is now feasible. However until now this technology hasn't been deployed in the emergency respond service.

In the hope of helping the detection of the cardiac arrest, offer the possibility to evaluate and correct via a video-instructed CPR (V-CPR) and to facilitate a fast localization of the emergency site, a new software (EmergencyEye®/RAMSES®) was developed which enables the dispatcher a video-telephony with the callers mobile terminal (smartphone) if suitable.

This technology hasn't been tested in a randomized controlled trail yet and no data exists that shows if V-CPR in comparison to T-CPR and non-instructed CPR leads to a better bystander CPR-performance.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy volunteer

Exclusion criteria

• healthcare providers (medical practitioners, nurses, paramedics etc.)
• pregnant women
• people with cardio-pulmonary and musculoskeletal diseases or any other impairment that would risk harm for the volunteer while performing CPR for 8 minutes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 3 patient groups

unassisted CPR

No Intervention group

Description:

unassisted CPR

T-CPR

Active Comparator group

Description:

telephone assisted CPR according to ERC Guidelines 2015

Treatment:

Drug: telephone-assisted CPR

V-CPR

Experimental group

Description:

video-assisted CPR according to ERC Guidelines 2015

Treatment:

Device: Video-assisted CPR