Authors’ response: balloon size and interpretation of the REBOARREST trial
Jostein Rødseth Brede, Andreas Jørstad Krüger · 2026
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Jostein Rødseth Brede and Andreas Jørstad Krüger answered critics of their cardiac arrest trial in a 2026 response. The REBOARREST trial tested a balloon catheter that blocks the aorta from inside during resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A comment questioned balloon sizing and trial conduct. The authors reply point by point, starting with approvals: all ethics, institutional, and device permissions were in place before the trial began.
They concede one limit. Patients excluded for missing deferred consent may skew the sample, since consent failure tracks with early death; the rule came from ethics committees, not the team. On sizing, they set the cited thirty-millimeter aorta estimate against pooled data nearer twenty-four to twenty-six millimeters.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jostein Rødseth Brede, Andreas Jørstad Krüger |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |