NCT01864343

Target Temperature Management In Myocardial Infarction - A Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary goal in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction is to reperfuse the ischemic myocardium to reduce infarct size. Animal data and human data suggest that whole-body cooling to temperatures below 35°C before revascularisation can additionally reduce infarct size and therefore improves outcome in these patients. The purpose of the study is to determine the feasibility and safety of a combined cooling strategy started in the out-of-hospital arena for achieving pre-reperfusion hypothermia in patients with acute st-elevation myocardial infarction.

Conditions

• ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	EMCOOLS flex pad; Philips Innercool RTx	Surface cooling with EMCOOLS flex pads (out-of-hospital); Infusion of 1000ml to 2000ml of cold saline (out-of-hospital); central-venous cooling (Philips Innercool RTx)

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2013-05-29
• Last updated: 2013-05-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria