Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Dissemination Study Using Nurses and Volunteers

NCT01252316 | Completed Phase 1

• 1 other identifier: CRS-812096
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 500
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

Each year in the United States, 300,000 people suffer from Cardiac Arrest (CA), and of them there is a 90% mortality rate. Out-of-Hospital arrests in particular have a 1-5% survival to hospital discharge. High quality CPR is crucial to lowering the mortality rate and increasing survival, yet only 15-30% of out-of-hospital CA victims receive bystander CPR. Studies have shown that prompt administration of CPR dramatically improves outcomes. In a recent study from Switzerland, lay bystander CPR doubled the survival rate at one month. Our study will look to train family members of at-risk cardiac patients in the skills of CPR through the American Heart Associations (AHA) CPR Anytime Friends and Family Personal Learning Program (CPR Anytime) to see if these family members are able to learn and perform quality CPR in the event that their family member should suffer a cardiac arrest. The unique feature of the CPR Anytime training is that it is a low-cost, self-learning, video-based program that can be completed in under 30 minutes, saving the time and expense of traditional CPR training courses. While initial work has proven that teaching CPR in hospital using the VSI kit is feasible, little research has been conducted to make the program sustainable.

Conditions

Cardiovascular Risk Factors; Coronary Disease; Cardiac Arrest

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Assessing Nurses and Volunteers implementation of the in-hospital CPR Training Program

  To determine if volunteers or nursing staff can adequately implement a CPR Training Program for at risk family members of patients hospitalized for cardiac risk-factors. Subjects will be given "enroller surveys" in 3-month integrals to assess comfort level with the program.

  2 years

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• CPR Skills Performance and Retention

  up to 1 year

• Assessing bystander CPR training dissemination

  up to 1 year

Study Arms (4)

Standard CPR

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Individuals will learn the Standard form of CPR (30:2, compressions:breathes) Main data points being collected at various increments over 12 months are: 1) Comfort Level with using CPR 2) Secondary Training "multiplier effect" 3) CPR Skills

Other: CPR Training using the Family and Friends CPR Anytime VSI Kit

Recruitment with Volunteers

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

UPHS volunteer subjects will be identified by hospital stakeholders, and they will be given surveys to assess their confidence, attitudes and beliefs towards this program at 3-month integrals.

Other: Implementation of an In-Hospital CPR Training Model

Recruitment with Nurses

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

UPHS Nurse subjects will be identified by hospital stakeholders, and they will be given surveys to assess their confidence, attitudes and beliefs towards this program at 3-month integrals.

Other: Implementation of an In-Hospital CPR Training Model

Chest Compressions Only CPR

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Individuals will learn the chest compression only form of CPR (no rescue breathes) Main data points being collected at various increments over 12 months are: 1) Comfort Level with using CPR 2) Secondary Training "multiplier effect" 3) CPR Skills

Other: CPR Training using the Family and Friends CPR Anytime VSI Kit

Interventions

CPR Training using the Family and Friends CPR Anytime VSI Kit OTHER

Subjects will be trained using the American Heart Association's Family and Friends CPR Anytime Kit. The subject's will undergo training in-hospital then they will be encouraged to take the kit home with them to practice CPR with their family members and friends.

Chest Compressions Only CPR; Standard CPR

Implementation of an In-Hospital CPR Training Model OTHER

UPHS Nurses and Volunteers will be trained in our in-hospital CPR Training Model using VSI Kits, and encouraged to implement the training program in their respective hospitals.

Recruitment with Nurses; Recruitment with Volunteers

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Family Member's of Patients with known coronary disease or cardiovascular risk factors, such as history of diabetes and hypertension.

You may not qualify if:

• If someone is physically unable to undergo CPR Training
• Someone who has received CPR training in the past 2 years

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania: lead

Study Sites (2)

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

Pennsylvania Hospital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19106, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Coronary Disease; Heart Arrest

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Myocardial Ischemia; Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Vascular Diseases

Study Officials

• Benjamin S Abella, MD, MPhil

  University of Pennsylvania

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 1
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2010
• First Posted: December 2, 2010
• Study Start: October 1, 2010
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2012
• Study Completion: October 1, 2012
• Last Updated: November 1, 2018

Record last verified: 2015-12

Locations

US (2)