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Registration number
NCT00800384
Ethics application status
Date submitted
27/11/2008
Date registered
2/12/2008
Date last updated
30/03/2018

Titles & IDs
Public title
Shockless Implant Evaluation
Scientific title
Shockless Implant Evaluation
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
11-2007
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
SIMPLE
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Ventricular Fibrillation 0 0
Ventricular Tachycardia 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cardiovascular 0 0 0 0
Other cardiovascular diseases

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Devices - Implantable defibrillator

Experimental: 1 - ICD implant without defibrillation testing

Active comparator: 2 - ICD implant with defibrillation testing


Treatment: Devices: Implantable defibrillator
Implantable defibrillator to detect and terminate ventricular arrhythmias
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Devices
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
First Occurrence of the Composite of Failed First Appropriate Clinical Shock From the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) or Arrhythmic Death
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Mean follow-up of 3.1 years
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Perioperative Complication Rate
Timepoint [1] 0 0
30 days

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Age = 18 years
* Patients undergoing initial implant of an ICD or CRT-D device (can be upgrade from a pacemaker)
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Patients, who in the opinion of their treating physicians are ineligible for either strategy (DT or no DT)
* Patients on active transplant list
* Patients unwilling to provide informed consent
* Patients not available for follow-up
* Pregnancy or women of child bearing potential not following an effective method of contraception
* Anticipated right sided implantation of the ICD generator

Study design
Purpose of the study
Other
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s


Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
NA
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/01/2009
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/05/2014
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
2500
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
The Royal Melbourne Hospital - Melbourne
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
3050 - Melbourne
Recruitment outside Australia
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Austria
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St. Poelten
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Austria
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Vienna
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Austria
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Wels
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Canada
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Alberta
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Canada
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British Columbia
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Canada
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Manitoba
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Canada
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Nova Scotia
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Ontario
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Quebec
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Czechia
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Prague
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Finland
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Tampere
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France
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Grenoble
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France
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Lille
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France
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Nancy
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France
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Pau
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France
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Rennes
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Berlin
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Bernau
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Bielefeld
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Heidelberg
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Landshut
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Leipzig
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Muenster
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Nuernberg
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Rostock
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Rotenburg an der Fulda
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Trier
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Ulm
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Zwickau
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Hong Kong
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Shatin
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Hungary
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Budapest
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Israel
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Beer Sheva
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Haifa
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Jerusalem
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Petah-Tikva
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Tel Aviv
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Israel
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Tel Hashomer
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Malaysia
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Kuala Lumpur
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Breda
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Den Haag
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Eindhoven
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Utrecht
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Zwolle
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Kristiansand
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Katowice
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Valencia
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Chertsey
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United Kingdom
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Liverpool
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United Kingdom
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/industry
Name
Boston Scientific Corporation
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Commercial sector/industry
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Guidant Corporation
Address [1] 0 0
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Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
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Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Jeff Healey, MD
Address 0 0
Population Health Research Institute Canada
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Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
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Contact person for scientific queries

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Results are available at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00800384