The role of early CT Coronary Angiography in the evaluation, intervention and outcome of patients presenting to the Emergency Department with suspected or confirmed acute coronary syndrome. Image This study aims to investigate the effect of early CTCA for Emergency Department patients with suspected or confirmed Acute Coronary Syndrome, compared to current standard practice, upon interventions, event rates and health care costs in a pragmatic clinical trial and economic evaluation up to 1 year after the trial. Chief Investigator: Prof. Alasdair Gray Number and location of participating sites (by region/ country): 35 UK sites. ISRCTN number: 19102565 http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN19102565/ Funder: NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme Start and End date of grant award: January 2015 – December 2018 of recruitment: 11 March 2015 - 30 June 2019 Current Status: Completed/Published The trial publication can be found here: https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2106 website: https://www.emergeresearch.org/trial/rapid-ctca UK GDPR Privacy Statement: If you have participated in this study and would like to read how it complies with UK GDPR, please read this document. Document ECTU RAPID CTCA GDPR privacy statement (114.34 KB / PDF) Contact details: sponsor ACCORD Chief Investigator: Prof Alasdair Gray, EMeRGE Office, Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA. Trial Management: Ms Kat Oatey, Email: rapid.ctca@ed.ac.uk Research Nurse: Rachel O’Brien, Email: Rachel.O'Brien@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk ECTU Involvement: Trial management / Statistics / Data base and randomisation service provision. (UKCRC) This article was published on 2024-09-24
