Developing and Testing Drone-Delivered AEDs for Cardiac Arrests In Rural America
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
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
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• 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.
Locations
United States
North Carolina
Forsyth County
RECRUITING
Clemmons
Contact Information
Primary
Leo Brothers, MPH
joseph.l.brothers@duke.edu
919-641-3555
Backup
Lauren Wilverding
lauren.wilverding@duke.edu
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-09-08
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-03-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 128
Treatments
Experimental: DFR AED Program
Real-time and simulated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occur across 6 communities (4 rural, 2 urban)
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: University of Washington, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Toronto
Leads: Duke University