The ICU-Resuscitation Project (ICU-RESUS) (ICU-RESUS)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02837497 |
Recruitment Status :
Recruiting
First Posted : July 19, 2016
Last Update Posted : December 30, 2020
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Cardiac Arrest | Other: ICU-RESUS CPR Improvement Bundle | Not Applicable |
Pediatric cardiac arrest affects thousands of hospitalized children each year. Progressive heart and lung failure is a predisposing cause in the majority of these events. While cardiac arrest survival outcomes have improved over the last decade, more than half of these children will not live to hospital discharge. As brain injury complicates care in those who do survive, the burden to these children and the public's health is substantial.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) - the medical procedure of providing chest compressions and ventilations during cardiac arrest - is life saving, and higher quality CPR is more effective at doing so. However, providing high quality care during the resuscitation of a child is difficult. Attempts to improve care through conventional training methods have not been successful; therefore, interventions to improve the quality of pediatric CPR and outcomes are needed.
The objective of this study is to determine if a novel resuscitation care improvement bundle that improved outcomes in a single center intensive care unit (ICU) efficacy study is generalizable to other pediatric institutions in a multi-center effectiveness trial. The ICU-Resuscitation (ICU-RESUS) bundle includes: 1) CPR training at the point-of-care (in the ICU rather than a classroom away from patients); and 2) interdisciplinary structured reviews of each cardiac arrest that emphasize patient-centric physiology intended to optimize intra-arrest and post-arrest care. The ICU-RESUS bundle substantially improved CPR quality and nearly doubled the number of children surviving their event during the single center efficacy trial. In this study, a multi-institutional parallel stepped-wedge hybrid cluster-randomized trial, which leverages the existing infrastructure of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-funded Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN), is proposed with the following aims: 1) Evaluate the effectiveness of the ICU-RESUS interventional bundle to improve outcomes of children treated for an ICU cardiac arrest; and 2) Evaluate the effectiveness of the ICU-RESUS interventional bundle to improve the quality of CPR provided by ICU healthcare providers in the population of children treated for an ICU cardiac arrest.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 1540 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Crossover Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Other |
Official Title: | Improving Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest |
Study Start Date : | October 2016 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | March 2021 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | March 2021 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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No Intervention: Control
Standard ICU resuscitation practices
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Experimental: ICU-RESUS CPR Improvement Bundle
ICU-RESUS bundle implementation: 1) point-of-care bedside CPR training; and 2) post-cardiac arrest debriefings.
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Other: ICU-RESUS CPR Improvement Bundle
Other Name: ICU-RESUS |
- Good neurological survival [ Time Frame: Baseline and hospital discharge ]Pediatric cerebral performance category of less than or equal to 3 or no change from baseline.
- Excellent CPR [ Time Frame: During cardiopulmonary resuscitation ]A composite variable of systolic blood pressure >60 mmHg for neonates, >80 mmHg for infants, or >100 mmHg for older patients AND compression rate between 100-120 / minute, AND a chest compression fraction greater than or equal to 80%.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 37 Weeks to 18 Years (Child, Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age greater than or equal to 37 weeks and less than or equal to18 years of age;
- AND Received CPR in the ICU setting
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pre-existing terminal illness and patient not expected to survive to hospital discharge.
- Lack of commitment to aggressive ICU therapies.
- Brain death determination prior to CPR event.
- First CPR event associated with this hospital admission was an out-of-hospital CPR event.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02837497
Contact: Sharon Carbonara, BSN, RN | 2674251383 | carbonara@email.chop.edu | |
Contact: Kathryn Graham, BA | 2155901859 | GrahamK1@email.chop.edu |
United States, Pennsylvania | |
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Recruiting |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104 | |
Contact: Kathryn Graham, BA 215-590-1859 grahamk1@email.chop.edu |
Principal Investigator: | Robert Sutton, MD MSCE | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02837497 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
15-012576 R01HL131544 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) UG1HD063108 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | July 19, 2016 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | December 30, 2020 |
Last Verified: | December 2020 |
pediatric heart arrest |
Heart Arrest Heart Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases |