Completed

Tele-electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care

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What is being tested

Electrocardiogram (ECG) Intervention

+ Routine Clinical Practice

DeviceOther
Who is being recruted

Cardiovascular Diseases+11

+ Chest Pain

+ Emergencies

Over 18 Years
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How is the trial designed

Diagnostic Study

Phase 3
Interventional
Study Start: September 2003
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Summary

Principal SponsorUniversity of California, San Francisco
Last updated: January 14, 2026
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Study start date: September 1, 2003

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

This is a Phase III study. Patients will be randomized (like tossing a coin) to 1 of 2 groups: Group 1: Patients will have pre-hospital ECG intervention. Group 2: Patients will have routine emergency heart care. Information will be collected about time symptoms started, clinical management, and other measures. All patients will be contacted by telephone 12 months later and interviewed as to whether they experienced any cardiac symptoms.

Official TitleTele-electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care 
NCT00305318NCT000750881R01NR007881-01A2
Principal SponsorUniversity of California, San Francisco
Last updated: January 14, 2026
Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details

794 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Diagnostic Study

Diagnostic studies focus on improving how we detect or confirm a disease. They test new tools or techniques that could provide faster or more accurate diagnoses.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

Over 18 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Cardiovascular DiseasesChest PainEmergenciesHeart DiseasesInfarctionIschemiaMyocardial InfarctionNecrosisNeurologic ManifestationsPainPathologic ProcessesVascular DiseasesMyocardial IschemiaDisease Attributes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * All individuals in Santa Cruz County in California who call 911 with symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (chest pain, shortness of breath, anginal equivalent). Exclusion Criteria: * Those who don't meet the above inclusion criteria.

Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.
Treatment Groups
Study Objectives

2 intervention groups are designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental
Patients randomized to the experimental group had their ECGs printed out in the target ED with an audible voice alarm. Print-out of the pre-hospital ECG in the target ED was the intervention.

Group II

Control patients had an ECG conducted after hospital arrival, as was the standard of care in the county.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.

This study has 1 location

Suspended

University of California San Francisco

San Francisco, United StatesSee the location
CompletedOne Study Center