NCT00075088

Tele-Electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care

Tele-electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 794 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed description

This is a Phase III study. Patients will be randomized (like tossing a coin) to 1 of 2 groups: Group 1: Patients will have pre-hospital ECG intervention. Group 2: Patients will have routine emergency heart care. Information will be collected about time symptoms started, clinical management, and other measures. All patients will be contacted by telephone 12 months later and interviewed as to whether they experienced any cardiac symptoms.

Conditions

• Myocardial Infarction
• Chest Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2004-01-05
• Last updated: 2015-06-17
• Results posted: 2013-08-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States