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Drone Delivered Defibrillators (The 3D Project).

NCT06334718 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2025-05-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this observational study is to explore the optimisation and integration of a drone-delivered Automated External Defibrillator (AED) system into the pre-hospital response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The study is being conducted by the University of Warwick and Welsh Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (both in the UK)

There are two separate packages of work. In work package 1 the investigators will interview people who have been involved in emergency (999) calls for cardiac arrest, asking them about their experiences with the call-handler and how they feel they might have responded if they had received an AED that had been delivered by a flying drone.

In work package 2 the investigators will conduct simulated cardiac arrests. The participants in the study will make an emergency (999) call to a trained call-handler and, once the cardiac arrest is identified during the call, a drone will be activated from a distant location and fly up to 2km to the test site and deliver an AED. The investigators will record how long it takes to retrieve and attach the AED, and ask the participants for their views about the interaction with the call-handler, AED and drone.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interviews and simulation

Work package 1: interview study Work package 2: simulated cardiac arrest study with AED delivered by drone following a simulated emergency (999) call.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Warwick

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher M Smith, MBChB, PhD · University of Warwick

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-03-29
Primary Completion
2024-10-31
Completion
2025-04-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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