Developing and Testing Drone-Delivered AEDs for Cardiac Arrests In Rural America
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorDuke University
About this trial
The overall goal of this project is to design, develop, and pilot test an emergency healthcare drone delivery system suitable for rural communities that can deliver AEDs to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) locations more rapidly than can be achieved with current first responder and EMS systems. The goal is to determine whether this method of AED delivery can be achieved rapidly enough to justify a future clinical trial directly testing its ability to improve OHCA survival.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Patients 18 years of age or older in the CARES registry who suffer cardiac arrest before arrival of a 911-responder of non-traumatic cause, including patients who receive an AED shock by a bystander prior to the arrival of 911 responders.
Disqualifiers
Patients in the CARES registry who have a traumatic cause of cardiac arrest.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- DFR AED Pilot Program
Treatment groups
128 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupSponsors and collaborators
Duke University
Lead sponsor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Collaborator
University of Toronto
Collaborator
University of Washington
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov