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Clinical trialNCT07002294RecruitingInterventional

The Effect of SPecialty cAre on Recovery From Cardiac Arrest Trial (the SPARC Trial)

SponsorUniversity of PittsburghEnrollment1,618Cardiac Arrest (CA)Heart ArrestHeart Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital
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Summary

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This randomized clinical trial will determine if adult participants who are in the emergency department after being resuscitated from a cardiac arrest outside of the hospital benefit from care delivered at specialized centers. The main question that it will answer is whether transferring participants to a hospital with a specialized cardiac arrest service improves recovery of function after 90 days. Participants will receive all usual medical care, but some participants will be offered transfer to a regional cardiac arrest center and others will be offered care at the closest appropriate hospital. Investigators will interview participants after 90 days to assess their recovery.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    Clifton Callaway, MD, PhDFrancis Guyette, MD, MPHJonathan Elmer, MD, MS
    Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
11 May 2026
Primary completion
30 Jun 2031
Completion
31 Jan 2032
Last update posted
6 Aug 2026
Registered enrollment
1,618
Registry id
NCT07002294
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 11 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.