Status:
RECRUITING
The HeartRunner Trial
Lead Sponsor:
Emergency Medical Services, Capital Region, Denmark
Collaborating Sponsors:
TrygFonden, Denmark
Conditions:
Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Eligibility:
All Genders
8+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The study will assess 30-day survival for cases where volunteer citizen responders ('heart runners') were activated through a smartphone app to retrieve an AED in case of suspected out-of-hospital car...
Detailed Description
Chances of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest decrease 10% per minute from collapse until defibrillation. Activating volunteer citizens through the emergency medical dispatch center can pot...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All out-of-hospital cardiac arrests recognized by Emergency Medical Dispatcher and where the HeartRunner system is activated.
- Non-traumatic etiology, this excludes intoxication, drowning or suicide.
- Age \> 7 years
Exclusion
- Caller is not in direct contact with the patient
- If Emergency Medical Dispatcher deems AED is not indicated, e.g., in nursing homes where trained personal is present.
- OHCAs not treated by the EMS due to ethical reasons or obvious signs of death
- OHCAs with no heart runners within 1800 meters
- Not true cardiac arrest (suspected, but not verified)
- EMS-witnessed OHCAs
- Emergency medical dispatchers are instructed not to activate heart runners in case any of the exclusion criteria above. However, since it can be challenging for emergency medical dispatchers to gather sufficient information about the patient within the first few minutes, heart runners will admittedly be activated even though they should not have been. Since randomization will occur for all cases in which a heart runner is activated, cases with any of the exclusion criteria will be secondarily excluded.
- These cases will be accounted for but not included in analyses of outcome. Our pilot study showed approximately 60% of suspected cardiac arrests were true cardiac arrests. Therefore, we expect 40% of cases for which heart runners were dispatched not to be true cardiac arrests.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 15 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
May 1 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
1600 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03835403
Start Date
May 15 2019
End Date
May 1 2026
Last Update
December 8 2022
Active Locations (1)
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Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Ballerup, Denmark