Vest Prevention of Early Sudden Death Trial and VEST Registry
Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01446965. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
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Official title
Vest Prevention of Early Sudden Death Trial: Prevention of Sudden Death After Myocardial Infarction Using a LifeVest Wearable Cardioverter-defibrillator (Formerly VEST/PREDICTS)
Brief summary
Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.
This study explores the hypothesis that wearable defibrillators can impact mortality by reducing sudden death during the first three months after a heart attack in persons with high risk for life-threatening arrhythmias.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01446965
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 2,348 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 2008 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- May 31, 2019 (Actual)
- Completion
- May 31, 2019 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Jan 20, 2021
2008 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 57
- U.S. states
- 25
- U.S. cities
- 50
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Heart Institute | Anchorage | Alaska | 99508 | — |
| Cardiovascular Consultants Heart Center | Fresno | California | 93720 | — |
| Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System | Salinas | California | 93901 | — |
| University of California, San Francisco | San Francisco | California | 94143 | — |
| University of Colorado | Aurora | Colorado | 80045 | — |
| Hartford Hospital | Hartford | Connecticut | 06102 | — |
| Christiana Care Health Services | Newark | Delaware | 19718 | — |
| University of Florida | Gainesville | Florida | 32610 | — |
| Watson Clinic for Research, Inc. | Lakeland | Florida | 33805 | — |
| Melbourne Cardiac Resarch Institute | Melbourne | Florida | 32901 | — |
| Florida Heart Group/Florida Hospital | Orlando | Florida | 32803 | — |
| Advocate Christ Hospital | Oak Lawn | Illinois | 60453 | — |
| Lutheran General | Park Ridge | Illinois | 60068 | — |
| The Heart Group/Deaconess Hospital | Evansville | Indiana | 47713 | — |
| Indiana University | Indianapolis | Indiana | 46202 | — |
| St. Vincent Medical Group | Indianapolis | Indiana | 46260 | — |
| Western Kentucky Heart and Lung | Bowling Green | Kentucky | 42101 | — |
| University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute | Lexington | Kentucky | 40536 | — |
| Ochsner Clinic | New Orleans | Louisiana | 70121 | — |
| Tufts Medical Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02111 | — |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02115 | — |
| University of Massachusetts Memorial | Worcester | Massachusetts | 01655 | — |
| The Valley Hospital | Ridgewood | New Jersey | 07450 | — |
| Presbyterian Heart Group | Albuquerque | New Mexico | 87106 | — |
| Albany Associates in Cardiology | Albany | New York | 12205 | — |
| United Health Services | Johnson City | New York | 13790 | — |
| Long Island Jewish Hospital | New Hyde Park | New York | 11040 | — |
| St. Luke's- Roosevelt Hospital Center | New York | New York | 10025 | — |
| Mount Sinai Hospital | New York | New York | 10029 | — |
| Lenox Hill Hospital | New York | New York | 10075 | — |
| Huntington Hospital | New York | New York | 11743 | — |
| University Cardiovascular Associates (Rochester) | Rochester | New York | 14626 | — |
| Stony Brook University | Stony Brook | New York | 11794 | — |
| Montefiore Medical Center | The Bronx | New York | 10467 | — |
| University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill | North Carolina | 27599 | — |
| Duke University Medical Center | Durham | North Carolina | 27710 | — |
| Wake Heart Research | Raleigh | North Carolina | 27610 | — |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Winston-Salem | North Carolina | 27157 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic | Cleveland | Ohio | 44195 | — |
| University Hospital Case Medical Center | Columbus | Ohio | 44106 | — |
| North Ohio Heart Center-North Ohio Research | Elyria | Ohio | 44035 | — |
| Cardiovascular Research Center, LLC/Mercy St Vincent | Toledo | Ohio | 43608 | — |
| Oklahoma Heart Institute-Hillcrest | Tulsa | Oklahoma | 74104 | — |
| Oregon Heart & Vascular | Springfield | Oregon | 97477 | — |
| Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | Pennsylvania | 17201 | — |
| Geisinger Heart Institute | Danville | Pennsylvania | 17822 | — |
| The Guthrie Clinic/Guthrie Medical Group | Sayre | Pennsylvania | 18840 | — |
| Brown Medical School-Rhode Island Hospital | Providence | Rhode Island | 02903 | — |
| Providence/South Carolina Heart Center | Columbia | South Carolina | 29204 | — |
| McLeod Health/Pee Dee Cardiology | Florence | South Carolina | 29506 | — |
| Wellmont Holston Valley | Kingsport | Tennessee | 37660 | — |
| Turkey Creek Medical Center | Knoxville | Tennessee | 37934 | — |
| Baylor University Medical Center | Dallas | Texas | 75226 | — |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas | Texas | 75390 | — |
| Carilion Clinic | Roanoke | Virginia | 24014 | — |
| Cardiac Study Center | Tacoma | Washington | 98405 | — |
Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.
Non-U.S. locations
This page focuses on the U.S. directory. The official record also lists 14 non-U.S. sites.
About this trial record page
- What this page shows
- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01446965, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
- What this page does not do
- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
- Where the data comes from
- Sourced from the official ClinicalTrials.gov public API. The official record is the source of truth.
- Last refresh
- Last update posted Jan 20, 2021 · Synced Oct 20, 2026
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