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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00120965
Date of registration: 30/06/2005
Primary sponsor: University of Washington
Public title: AutoPulse Assisted Prehospital International Resuscitation Trial (ASPIRE)
Scientific title: AutoPulse Assisted Prehospital International Resuscitation Trial (ASPIRE)
Date of first enrolment: June 2004
Target sample size: 1837
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00120965
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Alfred P. Hallstrom, PhD
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Affiliation:  University of Washington
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- All persons with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who are attended by a vehicle
involved in the randomization process and who are treated by the emergency medical
service (EMS).

Exclusion Criteria:

- Persons under the age of 18

- Victims with traumatic arrest

- Less than the legal age of consent

- Resuscitation attempt discontinued because of do not resuscitate (DNR) orders or on
request of authorized decision-maker

- Wards of the state, including prisoners

- Chest or abdominal surgery within 6 weeks

- Site specific exclusions



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Cardiac Arrest
Intervention(s)
Device: AutoPulse
Other: Manual CPR
Primary Outcome(s)
Hospital admission defined as being alive four hours after the call for assistance to the emergency dispatch center.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Admittance to the hospital
CPC score at discharge from the hospital
Discharge from the hospital
ROSC (a pulse in any vessel) at any time
ROSC at arrival to emergency department
Survival at 3 months post hospital discharge
Secondary ID(s)
03-9613-B 01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Revivant Corporation
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