Clinical Trial on Individual Characteristics Affecting Pain Drug Therapy in Neonates (NeoPopGen)

February 1, 2019 updated by: Turku University Hospital

Individualising Drug Therapy in Neonates Using Pharmacogenomic Profiling, Population Based Modeling and Simulations

Children differ from adults with respect to growth and development but also immaturity of various pharmacological mechanisms. Dosing schemes in children are usually derived in an empirical manner from clinical trials in adult patient groups. All this poses neonates to an increased risk for therapeutic failure and adverse drug reactions.

Medicinal products studied during this project are among the ones with the highest needs for research in the pediatric intensive care. This project focuses on the necessity to integrate subject's individual characteristics to assist clinical decision-making in drug therapy. The investigators explore the mechanisms defining the dose response in pediatric populations. The results obtained with these studies will help to find safer drug dosing regimens in this delicate patient population.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

80

Phase

  • Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Turku, Finland, 20521
        • Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Turku University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

5 months to 9 months (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Given informed consent by the guardian of an eligible patient.
  • Patient is more than 24 weeks old and has a body weight more than 500 g.
  • Patient needs intensive care treatment based on a clinical decision by a neonatologist and receives propofol or oxycodone on their therapy. Attending neonatologist makes the decision to prescribe propofol for scheduled short procedural sedation or oxycodone for analgesia as well as all other treatment related decisions.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Eligible patients guardian declines to give informed consent.
  • A previous history of intolerance to the study drugs or to related compounds and additives.
  • History of any kind of drug allergy.
  • Participation in any other studies concomitantly or within one month prior to the entry into this study.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Propofol
Plasma samples and patient data are collected prospectively from 40 neonates who receive propofol as part of their care in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
Active Comparator: Oxycodone
Plasma samples and patient data are collected prospectively from 40 neonates who receive oxycodone as part of their care in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC) of propofol and oxycodone.
Time Frame: 24 hours post-dose.
Primary outcome is to build up a population pharmacometric model to describe pharmacokinetics of propofol and oxycodone based on drug concentrations analyzed from the plasma samples.
24 hours post-dose.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Effect of biometric and genomic covariates on AUC
Time Frame: 24 hours post-dose
Covariate analysis and simulations to individualize population models
24 hours post-dose
Efficacy of propofol in procedural anesthesia in neonates
Time Frame: 24 hours
Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability during procedural anesthesia for intratracheal intubation in neonates
24 hours
Efficacy of oxycodone as an analgesic in neonates during mechanical ventilation
Time Frame: 24 hours
Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability in neonates after oxycodone administration during mechanical ventilation.
24 hours

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Collaborators

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 20, 2015

Primary Completion (Actual)

February 28, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

January 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 13, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 24, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

April 27, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 4, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 1, 2019

Last Verified

February 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • T65/2015

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