{"id":1003,"date":"2020-07-02T08:38:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/?page_id=1003"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:26:20","slug":"general-features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/?page_id=1003","title":{"rendered":"General Features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enrollment<\/strong><br>Recruitment started in May 2017 and was completed in January 2023. During this period 965 patients were randomized to the S-ICD implant with DFT or S-ICD implant without DFT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Duration of the study<\/strong><br>The study will be completed at a median follow-up of 40 month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Participating centers<\/strong><br>Patients are randomized in centers in Europe, the United States of America and Asia. All centers have qualified cardiology departments with facilities for ICD implantation and have ample experience with S-ICD implantation and DFT testing. Follow up visits are performed under routine protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Results<\/strong><br>Results of the study were presented as a late breaking clinical trial at the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 2026 conference. The presentation is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WGOiDDBD4Iw\">here<\/a>. The data are published in <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.126.080638?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.126.080638?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed\">Circulation<\/a><\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PRAETORIAN-DFT trial is registered with <a href=\"http:\/\/clinicaltrials.gov\/show\/NCT03495297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03495297)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EnrollmentRecruitment started in May 2017 and was completed in January 2023. During this period 965 patients were randomized to the S-ICD implant with DFT or S-ICD implant without DFT. Duration of the studyThe study will be completed at a median &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/?page_id=1003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":543,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1003","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003\/revisions\/1510"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praetorian-trial.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}