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Telemedical Versus Conventional Emergency Care of Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies

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What is being collected

Data Collection

Collected from past medical records and data - Retrospective
Who is being recruted

Hypertensive Crisis+1

+ Cardiovascular Diseases

+ Hypertension

Over 18 Years
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How is the trial designed

Case-Control

Comparing exposures between individuals with and without disease in order to identify potential risk factors.
Observational
Study Start: November 2013
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Summary

Principal SponsorRWTH Aachen University
Last updated: January 27, 2026
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Study start date: November 1, 2013

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

Telemedically guided cases of hypertensive emergencies (april 2014 - March 2015) and urgencies are compared with a historical control group of conventional emergency medical service physician care on-scene for these scenarios. The historical control group is a time period prior to implementation of the telemedicine system and after a research project with a precursor telemedicine system. No telemedical support but only conventional on-scene EMS physician care was available (November 2013 - March 2014).

Official TitleTelemedical Versus Conventional Emergency Care of Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies
NCT02924805
Principal SponsorRWTH Aachen University
Last updated: January 27, 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

331 patients to be enrolled

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

Case-Control

These studies compare people who have a disease (cases) with those who don't (controls). The goal is to look back at previous exposures or risk factors to identify what might have contributed to the disease.

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

Hypertensive CrisisCardiovascular DiseasesHypertensionVascular Diseases

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * prehospital diagnosis of hypertensive emergency of hypertensive urgency Exclusion Criteria: Prehospital diagnoses of: * pulmonary edema * aortic dissection * acute coronary syndrome * acute stroke * acute respiratory insufficiency

Study Plan

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

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 Hospital Aachen

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CompletedOne Study Center