Comparing Vasopressin and Adrenaline in Patients With Cardiac Arrest
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2010-01-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The effectiveness of medications in cardiac arrest has been greatly debated and questioned.
Historically intravenous adrenaline has been the drug of choice since 1906. There have been
few formal evaluations to determine the value of adrenaline for cardiac arrest, and clinical
trials have not been able to show any benefit with intravenous adrenaline (compared to
placebo or no treatment) in the field.
Thus the purpose of this study is to compare vasopressin and adrenaline in the treatment of
cardiac arrest to answer the question whether there is an improvement in survival between
vasopressin and adrenaline.
Phase:
Phase 3
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Singapore General Hospital
Collaborators:
Alexandra Hospital Alexandra Hospital, Singapore Changi General Hospital National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore National University Hospital, Singapore