Atrial Fibrillation at the Viennese University Emergency Department

Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Trial

Official title:

Atrial Fibrillation Registry at the Emergency Department of the Medical University of Vienna: A Tool for Structured Diagnosis and Treatment

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03272620
• Other study ID #: 98765
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 23, 2017
• Last updated: September 1, 2017
• Start date: October 22, 2014
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2030

Study information

• Verified date: September 2017
• Source: Medical University of Vienna
• Contact: Jan Niederdöckl, Dr.
• Email: jan.niederdöckl[@]meduniwien.ac.at
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

The results of this study could imply that a atrial fibrillation registry, as a tool for structured diagnosis and therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation, may improve patient care for this rapidly growing population.

Description:

Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, with stroke being an especially important and potentially devastating complication. The number of patients with atrial fibrillation is likely to increase 2.5-fold during the next 50 years, reflecting the growing proportion of elderly individuals. Emergency departments play a central role in diagnosis and treatment (rhythm and rate control, initiation of anticoagulatory therapy for stroke prevention) of atrial fibrillation. Additionally, embolic (e.g. stroke, mesenteric ischemia) complications of atrial fibrillation and bleeding complications (e.g. gastrointestinal and intracranial) of anticoagulatory therapy are likewise treated at emergency departments.

Therefor the investigators hypothesis implies that the atrial fibrillation registry could serve as a tool for structured diagnosis and therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation and therefore may improve patient care. Additionally, diagnostic and therapeutic shortcomings by analyzing registry data may be detected.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 3000
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2030
• Est. primary completion date: January 1, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with atrial fibrillation treated at the Emergency Department of the Medical University of Vienna

• Signed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inclusion criteria not met

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Atrial Fibrillation
• Atrial Flutter
• Emergencies

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Austria	Emergency Department, Medical University Vienna	Vienna

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medical University of Vienna

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Austria, 

References & Publications (13)

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Domanovits H, Schillinger M, Thoennissen J, Nikfardjam M, Janata K, Brunner M, Laggner AN. Termination of recent-onset atrial fibrillation/flutter in the emergency department: a sequential approach with intravenous ibutilide and external electrical cardioversion. Resuscitation. 2000 Aug 1;45(3):181-7. — View Citation

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Höchtl T, Huber K. New anticoagulants for the prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation. Fundam Clin Pharmacol. 2012 Feb;26(1):47-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-8206.2011.00982.x. Epub 2011 Aug 29. Review. — View Citation

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O'Reilly DJ, Hopkins RB, Healey JS, Dorian P, Sauriol L, Tarride JE, Burke N, Goeree RA. The burden of atrial fibrillation on the hospital sector in Canada. Can J Cardiol. 2013 Feb;29(2):229-35. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2012.03.023. Epub 2012 May 30. — View Citation

Oldgren J, Healey JS, Ezekowitz M, Commerford P, Avezum A, Pais P, Zhu J, Jansky P, Sigamani A, Morillo CA, Liu L, Damasceno A, Grinvalds A, Nakamya J, Reilly PA, Keltai K, Van Gelder IC, Yusufali AH, Watanabe E, Wallentin L, Connolly SJ, Yusuf S; RE-LY Atrial Fibrillation Registry Investigators. Variations in cause and management of atrial fibrillation in a prospective registry of 15,400 emergency department patients in 46 countries: the RE-LY Atrial Fibrillation Registry. Circulation. 2014 Apr 15;129(15):1568-76. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.005451. Epub 2014 Jan 24. Erratum in: Circulation. 2015 Feb 17;131(7):e352. — View Citation

Risk factors for stroke and efficacy of antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation. Analysis of pooled data from five randomized controlled trials. Arch Intern Med. 1994 Jul 11;154(13):1449-57. Erratum in: Arch Intern Med 1994 Oct 10;154(19):2254. — View Citation

Rovellini A, Folli C, Cardani F, Monzani V. Thromboembolic and haemorrhagic events in permanent atrial fibrillation: observational study in an emergency department. Eur J Intern Med. 2009 Dec;20(8):756-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2009.08.008. Epub 2009 Sep 24. — View Citation

Vinson DR, Hoehn T, Graber DJ, Williams TM. Managing emergency department patients with recent-onset atrial fibrillation. J Emerg Med. 2012 Feb;42(2):139-48. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2010.05.017. Epub 2010 Jul 15. — View Citation

von Besser K, Mills AM. Is discharge to home after emergency department cardioversion safe for the treatment of recent-onset atrial fibrillation? Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Dec;58(6):517-20. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.06.014. Epub 2011 Jul 29. Review. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of participants with major adverse cardiac events	frequency distribution	Follow up (10 years)
Secondary	Number of successfully conducted cardioversions	frequency distribution	Follow up (10 years)