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Pain After Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (PAINCARE)

Recruitingn/aAges 18 Years - anyAllRegion Skane
NCT07564778 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

The PAINCARE substudy is an observational cohort substudy nested within the international STEPCARE trial, which evaluates sedation, temperature, and mean arterial pressure strategies after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. PAINCARE aims to describe the burden of pain during early intensive care after cardiac arrest and to evaluate associations between early pain burden and selected ICU and patient-reported outcomes. Pain is common in critically ill patients but may be difficult to assess in patients who are unconscious, sedated, mechanically ventilated, or unable to self-report. PAINCARE collects structured pain assessments during the first 168 hours after randomization using validated self-report or behavioral pain instruments and relates early pain burden to outcomes including delirium burden, ventilator-free time, ICU-free time, and follow-up pain outcomes. All analyses are observationa

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest * Adult, age 18 years or older * Spontaneous circulation without chest compressions for at least 20 minutes * Comatose, defined as not obeying verbal commands * Enrolled within 4 hours after return of spontaneous circulation Exclusion Criteria: * Restrictions or limitations of care * On extracorporeal membrane oxygenation before randomization * Pregnancy * Previously randomized in the STEPCARE trial * Trauma or hemorrhage as the presumed cause of arrest * Suspected or confirmed intracranial hemorrhage
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What it tests

  • Not listed
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Where

3 sites
Dep. of Intensive Care Halmstad Lasarett
Halmstad, Sweden
Department of Intensive Care, Skåne University Hospital
Malmö, Sweden
Dep. of Intensive Care, Norrlands Universitets Sjukhus
Umeå, Sweden
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