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LUCAS Chest Compressor Versus Manual Chest Compression in Out-of-hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrest. LUCAT Trial

NCT01521208 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2012-02-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this study is to show the superiority in survival at hospital admittance and in neurological outcome on hospital discharge of continuous mechanical chest compression using LUCAS device versus manual chest compressions in patients who suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Conditions

  • Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

DEVICE

LUCAS (Lund University Cardiac Assist Sysrem)

LUCAS device will be placed on patients suffering a cardiac arrest and continuous chest compressions will be performed, even while defibrillation is being applied

OTHER

Manual chest compressions

Manual CPR according to 2010 ERC guidelines will be performed

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Vall d'Hebron

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sistema d'Emergències Mèdiques

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Pilar Palma Padró, Doctor · Sistema d'Emergències Mèdiques

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2014-04-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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