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Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Community Trial

NCT00004560 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2016-04-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To measure survival to hospital discharge of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in community units (e.g., apartment or office buildings, gated communities, sports venues, senior centers, shopping malls) served by trained non-medical responders using automated external defibrillators (AEDs), an approach called Public Access Defibrillation, compared to units receiving the traditional optimum community standard of care (i.e., rescuers trained to recognize a cardiac emergency, call 911, and initiate CPR).

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

defibrillator

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    lead NIH

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-09-30
Completion
2004-02-29

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