Neuromuscular Blockade in the Intentive Care Unit, an Observational Study. (CURATIV)

December 15, 2021 updated by: French Society for Intensive Care

The study Short description of the protocol intended for the lay public. Include a brief statement of the study hypothesis. (Limit: 5000 characters) Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) are drug capable of inducing a complete paralysis of the muscle. Their use is frequent in the intensive care unit (ICU). Most of the time it is used as a single infusion to facilitate endotracheal intubation, but in the ICU the use of continuous infusion is common in several pathologies: acute distress respiratory syndrome, post-cardiac arrest survivor under hypothermia to prevent shivering, abdominal compartment syndrome, severe traumatic brain injury with uncontrolled intra-cranial pressure and severe asthma among others.

A monitoring of the dose of NMBAs is recommended to guide the depth of paralysis and to guide recovery, but in the ICU, the interest of such a monitoring during continuous infusion is unclear and the level of evidence is low.

The investigators propose to conduct a prospective multicentric observational study to describe the current practice in the use of NMBAs in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU. As a primary objective we will describe the prevalence of NMBAs use in the ICU. As a secondary objective, the investigators will investigate the impact of protocol and/or monitoring devices of NMBAs on the dose administered and clinical outcome endpoints.

Study Overview

Status

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Completed

Conditions

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Detailed Description

Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) are usually administered during anesthesia for endotracheal tube placement or surgical interventions. But their use is also common in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) (1, 2). Together with sedation and analgesia, they are mainly used in continuous infusion in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrom (ARDS) (3, 4), but also in post-cardiac arrest survivor under hypothermia to prevent shivering (5), in abdominal compartment syndrome (6), in severe traumatic brain injury with uncontrolled intra-cranial pressure (7) and severe asthma among others.

A monitoring of the treatment is recommended (8) and several monitoring techniques exists: qualitative clinical monitoring is known to be inefficient, qualitative clinical monitoring using scores such as the BSAS (9) or monitoring using peripheral nerve stimulation (train-of-four (TOF) (10)) or other devices such as accelerometry or electromyography.

As opposed to their use in the operating room where the interest of the monitoring is proven, there are discrepancy between studies on whether it is useful to monitor NMBAs in the ICU. For instance, Strange et al. did not observe any advantage of the use of a protocol of NMBAs administration (11), and Baumann et al. came to the same conclusions. However, more recently (12), Hraeich et al. found that the monitoring of NMBAs dosage guided by the TOF allowed to significantly reduce the dose administered during ADRS (13).

Thus, in the ICU, although guidelines recommend to monitor NMBAs administration (8), the level of evidence regarding the interest of monitoring and the device to use for such a monitoring is low.

The investigators propose to conduct a prospective multicentric observational study to describe the current practice in the use of NMBAs in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU. As a primary objective the investigators will describe the prevalence of NMBAs use in the ICU. As a secondary objective, the investigator will investigate the impact of protocol and/or monitoring devices of NMBAs on the dose administered and clinical outcome endpoints, such as in-ICU mortality, duration of mechanical ventilation or acquired neuromyopathy or other complications of NMBAs.

Study Type

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Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

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282

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • France
      • Argenteuil, France, 95100
        • CH D'argenteuil
      • Le Chesnay, France, 78157
        • CH de Versailles
      • Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, 94270
        • CHU Kremlin-Bicêtre
      • Le Mans, France, 72037
        • CH Le mans
      • Nantes, France, 44000
        • CHU Nantes
      • Nîmes, France
        • CHU Nîmes
      • Orléans, France
        • CHR Orléans
      • Paris, France
        • Chu La Pitie Salpetriere
      • Pontoise, France, 95303
        • CH de Pontoise
      • Tours, France, 37044
        • CHRU Bretonneau
      • la Roche sur Yon, France, 85925
        • CHD Les Oudairies

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients hospitalized in ICU and under mechanical ventilation

Description

  • Inclusion criteria

    • Adult Patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit
    • Patient under invasive mechanical ventilation
    • Administration of at least a single dose of neuromuscular blocking agent

  • Exclusion criteria :

    • Administration of a single dose of Succinylcholine or Rocuronium for a rapid-sequence intubation
    • Moribund patient whose life expectancy is less than 24 hours
    • Patient under 18 years old
    • Patient under legal guardianship.
    • Pregnant women
    • Patient already included previously in the study
    • Absence of health insurance in France
    • Neuromuscular blocking agent administered outside the ICU (i.e. in the operating room)

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Observational Models: Cohort
  • Time Perspectives: Prospective

Cohorts and Interventions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Neuromuscular blockade
Patients who will receive neuromuscular blockade during their ICU length stay will be follow until day 28 or their hospital discharge.
Drug: Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
Patient who will receive neuromuscular blockade will be follow during their ICU lenght stay.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Proportion of patients who receive neuromuscular blockade
Time Frame: ICU Length stay (usually 7 days)
Proportion between patients who receive neuromuscular blockade and patients hospitalized in ICU and under mechanical ventilation
ICU Length stay (usually 7 days)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Indications of neuromuscular blockade
Time Frame: ICU Length stay (usually 7 days)
Description of indications for neuromuscular blockade
ICU Length stay (usually 7 days)
Monitoring of neuromuscular blockade
Time Frame: ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Proportion of patients in whom neuromuscular blockade was monitored
ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Neuromuscular blocking agents administered dose
Time Frame: ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Total dose and duration of NMBAs
ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Tolerance of neuromuscular blocking agents
Time Frame: ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Acquired ICU weakness, pressure ulcer, ventilator associated pneumonia, other potential side effects neuromuscular blocking agents
ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Number of tracheostomy
Time Frame: ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Proportion of patients who received tracheostomy during their ICU stay
ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Duration of ICU stay
Time Frame: ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Duration of ICU stay
ICU Discharge (usually 7 days)
Duration of mechanical ventilation
Time Frame: Time from intubation to successfull extubation (usually 5 days)
Duration of mechanical ventilation
Time from intubation to successfull extubation (usually 5 days)
ICU Mortality
Time Frame: Time of ICU discharge (usually 7 days)
Proportion of patients dead during their ICU length stay
Time of ICU discharge (usually 7 days)

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Sponsor

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French Society for Intensive Care

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Study Start (Actual)

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November 2, 2019

Primary Completion (Actual)

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April 1, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

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April 1, 2020

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First Submitted

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July 18, 2019

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July 18, 2019

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July 22, 2019

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December 16, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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December 15, 2021

Last Verified

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December 1, 2021

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  • 2019-A01378-49

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

Undecided

IPD Plan Description

IPD can be obtained from PI after careful evaluation of request by clinical research committee of the French Intensive Care Society

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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