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The Effect of SPecialty cAre on Recovery From Cardiac Arrest Trial (the SPARC Trial)

NCT07002294 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1618

Last updated 2026-02-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This randomized clinical trial will determine if adult participants who are in the emergency department after being resuscitated from a cardiac arrest outside of the hospital benefit from care delivered at specialized centers.

The main question that it will answer is whether transferring participants to a hospital with a specialized cardiac arrest service improves recovery of function after 90 days.

Participants will receive all usual medical care, but some participants will be offered transfer to a regional cardiac arrest center and others will be offered care at the closest appropriate hospital. Investigators will interview participants after 90 days to assess their recovery.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Arrest (CA)
  • Heart Arrest
  • Heart Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital

Interventions

OTHER

Transfer to specialty care

Interfacility transport and treatment at the specialty care hospital

OTHER

Usual care

Hospitalization and treatment at the closest appropriate facility

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jonathan Elmer, MD, MS · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-30
Primary Completion
2031-06-30
Completion
2032-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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