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Developing and Testing Drone-Delivered AEDs for Cardiac Arrests In Rural America

NCT06229418 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 128

Last updated 2026-05-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The overall goal of this project is to design, develop, and pilot test an emergency healthcare drone delivery system suitable for rural communities that can deliver AEDs to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) locations more rapidly than can be achieved with current first responder and EMS systems. The goal is to determine whether this method of AED delivery can be achieved rapidly enough to justify a future clinical trial directly testing its ability to improve OHCA survival.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Arrest
  • Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

OTHER

DFR AED Pilot Program

Integrate AED drone delivery into an existing FAA-approved drone-as-first-responder programs

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Monique Starks, MD · Duke University

  • Daniel Mark, MD · Duke University

  • Joseph Ornato, MD · Virginia Commonwealth University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-08
Primary Completion
2027-03-31
Completion
2027-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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