Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01855035
Finding Atrial Fibrillation in Stroke - Evaluation of Enhanced and Prolonged Holter Monitoring
A Prospective, Randomised, Controlled Study to Determine the Detection of Atrial Fibrillation by Prolonged and Enhanced Holter Monitoring as Compared to Usual Care in Stroke Patients
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 402 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Institut fuer anwendungsorientierte Forschung und klinische Studien GmbH · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess whether repeated enhanced and prolonged ECG monitoring after ischemic stroke results in a higher detection of atrial fibrillation (/flutter) compared to usual care (at least 24 hour of cardiac monitoring).
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | prolonged ECG monitoring | 10-day Holter ECG measurement |
| OTHER | standard care | Usual care according to current guidelines (minimum of 24 hours of cardiac monitoring). |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-09-01
- Completion
- 2017-11-01
- First posted
- 2013-05-16
- Last updated
- 2020-05-04
Locations
4 sites across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01855035. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.