LUCAS Chest Compressor Versus Manual Chest Compression in Out-of-hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrest. LUCAT Trial — LUCAT  

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Clinical Trial

Official title: LUcas Continuous Chest Compressions in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Treatment. The LUCAT Trial

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to show the superiority in survival at hospital admittance and in neurological outcome on hospital discharge of continuous mechanical chest compression using LUCAS device versus manual chest compressions in patients who suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Clinical Trial Description

The primary goals of the trial are:

• To show a survival increase at hospital admittance after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of patients treated by continuous chest compressions LUCAS device compared with patients treated by manual chest compressions.

• To evaluate neurological outcome on hospital discharge, in two centres (Vall d'Hebron Hospital and Josep Trueta Hospital). ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Heart Arrest
• Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
• Sudden Cardiac Arrest

• NCT number: NCT01521208
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques
• Contact: Francesc Carmona Jiménez, Doctor
• Phone: +34607847717
• Email: franciscojosecarmona@gencat.cat
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 3
• Start date: January 2012
• Completion date: April 2014