Open AccessMulticenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial: Reduce Inappropriate Therapy (MADIT‐RIT): Background, Rationale, and Clinical Protocol
Author(s) -
Schuger Claudio,
Daubert James P.,
Brown Mary W.,
Cannom David,
Estes N.A. Mark,
Hall W. Jackson,
Kayser Torsten,
Klein Helmut,
Olshansky Brian,
Power Keith A.,
Wilber David,
Zareba Wojciech,
Moss Arthur J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of noninvasive electrocardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1542-474X
pISSN - 1082-720X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1542-474x.2012.00531.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , randomized controlled trial , clinical trial , multicenter trial , cardiology , intensive care medicine , multicenter study
The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is highly effective in reducing mortality due to cardiac arrhythmias in high‐risk cardiac patients. However, inappropriate therapies caused predominantly by supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVTs) remain a significant side effect of ICD therapy despite medical treatment, affecting 8–40% of patients. The MADIT‐RIT is a global, prospective, randomized, nonblinded, three‐arm, multicenter clinical investigation to be performed in the Unites States, Europe, Canada, Israel and Japan, and will utilize approximately 90 centers with plan to enroll 1500 patients programmed to three treatment arms. The objective of the MADIT‐RIT trial is to determine if dual‐chamber ICD or CRT‐D devices with high rate cutoff (MADIT‐RIT‐Arm B) and/or long delay in combination with detection enhancements (MADIT‐RIT‐Arm C) are associated with fewer patients experiencing inappropriate therapies than standard programming (MADIT‐RIT‐Arm A) during postimplant follow‐up of patients with indication for primary prevention device therapy. This paper describes design and analytic plan for the MADIT‐RIT trial.