1. The Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Trial
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Heather Payne, Bruce Haynes, Jerris R. Hedges, Sarah D. McNutt, Brent Shaum, Christopher Burke, Deb Cordes, Ross E. Megargel, Brian MacGavin, Rachel Knudson-Ballard, Ruchir Sehra, Thomas Therndrup, Lynne D. Richardson, Daniel Harker, R. O. Cummins, Christopher Shields, Michael Ottaway, Terri A. Schmidt, Shannon W. Stephens, Mark C. Henry, Mohamud Ramzanali Daya, Lawrence H. Brown, Barbara Riegel, Eleanor Schron, Stephen Yahn, Brian K. Slater, Jerry Overton, Lisa M. Evans, Patricia Burke, Frederick Ehlert, Myron L. Weisfeldt, Missy Bollinger, Robert Swor, Michael R. Sayre, Dennis Rabel, Kimberlee Brown, Judith Paulsen, Tom P. Aufderheide, David B. Reed, Nadia Douglas, Lance B. Becker, Lisa Parmenter, N. Clay Mann, Andy R. Anton, Robert D. Welch, Anne Barry, Denise Griffiths, Roland Webb, Linda Asbury, Britta Myrin, James Christenson, Scott Johnson, Mary Ann Peberdy, Vijayaraghavan Krishnaswami, Jim Christenson, Robert E. O'Connor, Kammy Jacobsen, Richard A. Craven, Graham Nichol, Brian D. Mahoney, Mary D. Gunnels, Lynn Marie Mango, Alidene Doherty, David Hostler, Jonathan VanZile, Patricia Lawson, Allan Holmes, Jonathan Jui, Ronald G. Pirrallo, Patricia McGraw, Joseph P. Ornato, Scott Compton, Robert B. Dunne, Kristen Bilicki, Venard J. Campbell, Marcel E. Salive, Stephen Ehrlich, Laura Grabowski, Ellen Demertsidies, Thomas A. Mattioni, Elizabeth Ferry Godburn, Christopher Freyberg, Gary Newton, Mary Ann McBurnie, Sarah Pennington, Neal Richmond, Michael Osur, Max Harry Weil, William J. Groh, Robert Zalenski, Constance D. Jones, Ilene Wilets, Lois A. Bosken, Lynn Wittwer, Vince N. Mosesso, Susan J. Bondurant, Jennifer Holohan, Heather Brooks, and Edward R. Stapleton
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Job description ,Poison control ,Emergency Nursing ,medicine.disease ,law.invention ,Clinical trial ,Quality of life (healthcare) ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Emergency medicine ,Emergency Medicine ,Clinical endpoint ,medicine ,Emergency medical services ,Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ,Medical emergency ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
The PAD Trial is a prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical study testing whether volunteer, non-medical responders can improve survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) by using automated external defibrillators (AEDs). These lay volunteers, who have no traditional responsibility to respond to a medical emergency as part of their primary job description, will form part of a comprehensive, integrated community approach to the treatment of OOH-CA. The study is being conducted at 24 field centers in the United States and Canada. Approximately 1000 community units (e.g. apartment or office buildings, gated communities, sports facilities, senior centers, shopping malls, etc.) were randomized to treatment by trained laypersons who will provide either cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) alone or CPR plus use of an AED, while awaiting arrival of the community's emergency medical services responders. The primary endpoint is the number of OOH-CA victims who survive to hospital discharge. Secondary endpoints include neurological status, health-related quality of life (HRQL), cost, and cost-effectiveness. Data collection will last approximately 15 months and is expected to be completed in September 2003.
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- 2003
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