NCT06652750

Evaluating the Safety and Effectiveness of 5G Cloud Follow-up for Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices

Evaluating the Safety and Effectiveness of 5G Cloud Follow-up for Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices: a Prospective, Paired, Self-controlled, Non-inferiority, Multicenter Clinical Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 688 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective: This clinical study employs a prospective, paired, self-controlled, non-inferiority, multicenter research design to assess the safety and efficacy of utilizing 5G cloud follow-up for CIED in parameters monitoring and remote programming post-implantation. Participants will: undergo regular clinic follow-up visits in accordance with the guidelines undergo routine in-office follow-up and 5G cloud follow-up during each regular clinic visit

Detailed description

Background: Cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIED) include pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) pacemakers and defibrillators, implantable cardiac event recorders (ICM), and implantable cardiovascular monitors. They are mainly used for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of bradycardia, tachycardia, and heart failure (HF). There are currently two main methods of follow-up: routine in-office follow-up and remote monitoring (RM). Routine in-office follow-up is the most commonly used method in China, whereby professional doctors and/or manufacturer engineers conduct follow-ups under the guidance of physicians. Remote monitoring (RM) allows patients to be remotely monitored at home or elsewhere when a communication network is available, receiving periodic alerts related to the patient. Remote monitoring (RM) can provide timely and accurate CIED data and information, promptly alerting clinical doctors to any issues. However, a drawback is that patients still need to visit the hospital for device parameter adjustments, so it only partially fulfills the functions of routine in-office follow-up. Of note, in the past three years, some domestic clinical centers in China have begun exploring the application of 5G cloud follow-up remote programming (5G Cloud Follow Up) in various patient follow-up scenarios. With the comprehensive deployment of 5G networks in China, central hospitals with specialized device programmers can establish one-to-one or one-to-many regional collaborative cloud follow-up systems with primary hospitals lacking follow-up technician through 5G networks. CIED patients only need to visit nearby primary hospitals to complete regular device follow-ups. Currently, excellent research results have been obtained in the quality control of the CIED follow-ups of a single provincial medical consortium system mainly consisting of major implantation centers. However, there is still a lack of verification results for 5G cloud follow-up remote programming in a medical consortium (MC) model covering various administrative regions in China and different levels of primary hospitals. This study will compare the safety and effectiveness of using 5G cloud follow-up remote programming in different administrative regions and levels of primary hospitals in China with routine in-office follow-ups. Objective: This clinical study employs a prospective, paired, self-controlled, non-inferiority, multicenter research design to assess the safety and efficacy of utilizing 5G cloud follow-up for CIED in parameters monitoring and remote programming post-implantation. Participants will: undergo regular clinic follow-up visits in accordance with the guidelines undergo routine in-office follow-up and 5G cloud follow-up during each regular clinic visit

Conditions

• Sick Sinus Syndrome
• Atrioventricular Block, Second and Third Degree
• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Routine Management	Conducting routine in-office follow-up for CIED paitents
DEVICE	5G Cloud Follow-up	This study employed a 5G-cloud follow-up platform, a research tool that allows a device specialist to test, and program CIEDs in real-time from a remote location via an internet connection or mobile wireless network. Consistent with of the 5G remote support terminal externally connected to the programmer, a PAD was installed with a 5G-cloud follow-up app. The onsite medical staff began the cloud follow-up session by contacting the remote device specialist via video call. The connection to the CIED was made by the medical staff through the use of a standard programmer. He was in charge of turning on the programmer and applying the programmer wand to the patient's device. After an initial introduction, communication was established and continued via the wand connection. The remote device specialist logged into the 5G-cloud follow-up app with two-step verification. The remote device specialist then had complete control of the programmer to check and reprogram the device as needed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-13
• Primary completion: 2025-02-01
• Completion: 2026-02-01
• First posted: 2024-10-22
• Last updated: 2024-11-21

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: China