Prehospital Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Pilot Study in Prague
Status: Recruiting
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
A prospective pilot feasibility study of prehospital ECPR in patients with refractory OHCA
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 70
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Estimated age 18-70 years
• Refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (3 unsuccessful defibrillations and/or at least 10 minutes of resuscitation in case of pulseless electrical activity)
• Witnessed cardiac arrest
• ECPR team available
• ECPR team alert within 20 minutes from the emergency call
Contact Information
Primary
Jan Belohlavek, MD, PhD
jan.belohlavek@vfn.cz
420724371594
Backup
Daniel Rob, MD, PhD
daniel.rob@vfn.cz
420721932067
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-01-20
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-06-16
Participants
Target number of participants: 20
Treatments
Experimental: Prehospital extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR)
Prehospital ECPR will include all patients who enter the study and receive ECPR.~The historical control group will consist of patients from the Prague OHCA study who received in-hospital ECPR and fulfilled all relevant inclusion and exclusion criteria for this study.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: General University Hospital, Prague