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Patients suffering heart failure in Coventry and Warwickshire could be given a placebo instead of adrenalin in a controversial trial.
Warwick Medical School researchers at the University of Warwick have been given the go-ahead for a new study to determine the effectiveness of the drug during resuscitation. Starting in the autumn, paramedics will give a placebo containing salt water rather than the usual injection of adrenalin before carrying out CPR.
The first 8,000 patients to suffer cardiac arrest out of hospital will form part of the study, with 50 per cent receiving the salt water dummy drug while the other half receives an adrenalin jab. It is referred to as a ‘double blind trial’ as neither the patient nor the paramedic, nurse or doctor will know in which treatment group someone was in.
Although patients will be unable to give their consent to take part, the trial has been approved by the Oxford Research Ethics Committee and is funded by the National Institute for Health Research.
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Warwick Medical School researchers at the University of Warwick have been given the go-ahead for a new study to determine the effectiveness of the drug during resuscitation. Starting in the autumn, paramedics will give a placebo containing salt water rather than the usual injection of adrenalin before carrying out CPR.
The first 8,000 patients to suffer cardiac arrest out of hospital will form part of the study, with 50 per cent receiving the salt water dummy drug while the other half receives an adrenalin jab. It is referred to as a ‘double blind trial’ as neither the patient nor the paramedic, nurse or doctor will know in which treatment group someone was in.
Although patients will be unable to give their consent to take part, the trial has been approved by the Oxford Research Ethics Committee and is funded by the National Institute for Health Research.
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