NCT04664881Completed
Home Telemonitoring In Patients After Myocardial Infarction
Home Telemonitoring In Patients After Myocardial Infarction, HELP ME Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 May 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is being done to determine if taking an electrocardiogram (ECG) by a portable device (SmartHeart) followed by a phone call will improve patient outcomes by early recognition of abnormalities and decrease emergency room visits and hospital readmissions compared to standard therapy alone.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 195 (actual)
- First submitted
- 7 Dec 2020
- Start date
- 14 Oct 2020
- Primary completion date
- 2 May 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
- Diseases
- Coronary artery disease
- NCT number
- NCT04664881
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 195
- From 14 Oct 2020 to the primary completion date, 2 May 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Out of hospital cardiac arrest: secondary to a non-shockable rhythm, unrelated to an acute coronary syndrome, or with any level of neurologic damage.
Other
- No ability to use the device at home/unable to comply with the device instructions
- No smartphone device or home wi-fi/mobile internet which prevent 24/7 ability to transmit ECG
- Cannot download the smartheart app
- No support in home environment
- Resident of nursing home or acute care facility
- Uninterpretable ECG at discharge - left bundle branch block (LBBB), pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) with pacing dependence.
- Patients who are planned for staged PCI after the index hospitalization
Who the study is looking for
- Acute myocardial infarction, both STEMI and non-STEMI.
- Able to use the home ECG telemonitoring.
- Must have smartphone device with home wi-fi/mobile internet which allows for 24/7 ability to transmit ECG.
- Caring family member who will be able to help/perform the ECG in case the patient won't be able to do it.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic in Rochester Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rochester | United States | Unknown status |
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