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Tele-Electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care

NCT00075088 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 794

Last updated 2015-06-17

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to see whether individuals who access the "911" emergency medical system with a heart attack or severe chest pain will receive more timely hospital treatment and better outcomes if hospital clinicians are provided with earlier and more complete electrocardiography (ECG) information.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Electrocardiogram (ECG) Intervention

Pre-hospital electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring with special software to detect myocardial ischemia and to automatically transmit an ECG to the destination hospital emergency department with a voice alarm announcing "Incoming ECG from the field" and print out in the ED.

OTHER

Routine Clinical Practice

ECG in the ED as part of routine clinical practice.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Barbara J Drew, RN PhD FAAN · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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