Evaluating the Influence of Ready-to-use (RTU) Parenteral Nutrition in the Clinical Outcome of Patients Study (EPICOS)

EPICOS- Evaluating the Influence of RTU Parenteral Nutrition in the Clinical Outcome Patients Study

This is an international prospective randomized multicenter open-label controlled study. The primary center will be Fernandes Távora Hospital (Fortaleza, Ceará). The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of closed parenteral nutrition systems when compared to open parenteral nutrition systems in terms of several clinical outcomes.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Parenteral Nutrition
• Intervention / Treatment: Dietary supplement: RTU TPN with olive oil as the primary lipid source; Other: CNF Parenteral nutrition; Other: CNF parenteral nutrition

Detailed Description

In most Latin-American countries individually customized nutrition formulations (CNF) remains the gold-standard for parenteral nutrition in opposition to industrialized ready-to-use parenteral nutrition (RTU). Although CNF is possibly associated with elevated infection rates, delay in the start of enteral nutrition and worse clinical outcomes there is no strong scientific evidence in the literature to support that the use of RTU is indeed associated with better clinical outcomes.

The use of closed ready-to-use parenteral nutrition systems is probably associated with less infection rates and better clinical outcomes including less time at the hospital and at the intensive care unit, less consumption of hospital resources and most likely lower mortality rates as well as early initiation of parenteral nutrition support. The aim of this study is to evaluate all the above mentioned parameters in contrast with those observed when using CNF parenteral nutrition.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 406
• Phase: Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Argentina
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Sanatorio Los Arcos
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Sanatorio Trinidad Palermo
• Brazil
  • CE
    • Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, 60.115-000
      • Fernandes Tavora Hospital
  • DF
    • Brasilia, DF, Brazil, 70390-010
      • Hospital Santa Luzia
  • RJ
    • Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 22271-110
      • Hospital da Polícia Militar
    • Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 22271-110
      • Hospital Samaritano
  • SP
    • São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 01506-000
      • Hospital Bandeirantes
• Guatemala
  • Guatemala City, Guatemala
    • Hospital Roosevelt

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients over 18 years of age with recommendation to use total parenteral nutrition.
• Caloric goals will be calculated using BEE adjusted by the pathology of the patient. In addition, patients MUST achieve at least once 75% of BEE (calculated using the Harris-Benedict equation) to be considered evaluable. Caloric intake will be accessed in a daily basis.
• This study will be performed in accordance with all ethics statements of the Helsinki's Declaration (52nd General Assembly of the World Medical Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, October, 2000), and of the Nuremberg Code.
• In addition, this study must be approved by the Institutional Review Board before patient enrollment and by the Federal Council of Research and Ethics of the Ministry of Health.
• All participating institutions will also be requested to observe Good Clinical Practice Guidelines and all federal laws and regulations.
• An informed consent will be obtained from all patients or their legal representatives before any study related procedure.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy or breastfeeding
• Patients under 18 years of age
• Significant limitation of survival prognosis (patients expecting a life survival under 28 days due to a chronic and/or incurable disease such as uncontrolled cancer or other terminal disease)
• Pre-existing chronic renal insufficiency and need of hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, participation in other clinical trial less than 3 months before inclusion in this trial
• Head trauma with a Glasgow Come Score (GCS) less or equal to 5
• Severe immunologic suppression (defined as a leukocyte count bellow 5.000 cells/mm3)
• Infection by the human immunodeficiency virus
• Patients with no indication for parenteral feeding or in the imminence of receiving enteral nutrition
• Patients receiving partial parenteral nutrition in order to achieve caloric goal, or patient's, patient's legal representative or physicians decision to exclude patients from this protocol.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: 1; Patients will receive RTU TPN with olive-oil as the primary source of lipids	Dietary supplement: RTU TPN with olive oil as the primary lipid source; RTU will be provided as a 3 in 1 TPN ready-to-use TPN system in industrialized bags with 2.000 ml. The number of calories will be adjusted in accordance with patients' individual needs.; Other Names: OliClinomel, Baxter Healthcare
Active Comparator: 2; CNF parenteral nutrition made with olive oil as the primary source of lipids	Other: CNF Parenteral nutrition; CNF parenteral nutrition made with olive oil as the primary source of lipids; Other Names: ClinOleic, Baxter Healthcare
Active Comparator: 3; CNF parenteral nutrition made with LCT/MCT as the primary source of lipids	Other: CNF parenteral nutrition; 3 in 1 CNF parenteral nutrition made with LCT/MCT as the primary source of lipids; Other Names: LCT/MCT providers may vary

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Incidence of bloodstreams and catheter infection, as well as incidence of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis diagnostic criteria will be re-evaluated on a daily basis.	28-day follow up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
28-days all cause mortality	28-days follow-up period
Time to start parenteral nutrition, defined as the time from prescription to the effective start of infusion	Time from prescription to the effective start of TPN
Incidence of hyperglycemic events, defined as the number of times patients developed blood glucose levels over 110 mg/dL and over 150 mg/dL	For the duration of TPN
Incidence of hypoglycemic events: defined as the number of times patients developed blood glucose levels bellow 60 mg/dL	For the duration of TPN
Mean dose of insulin used (patients will receive insulin in order to maintain blood glucose levels <150 mg/dL (or 8.3 mmol/L) in accordance with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines)	For the duration of TPN
Use of hospital/ICU resources such as vasopressors, mechanical ventilation, need of hemodialysis, need of inotropic agents, antibiotics and sedatives	28-days follow-up period
ICU-free days, defined as the number of days from study entry (baseline) to the actual day that a patient remained on the ICU during the 28-days follow up period	28-days follow-up period
Number of new organ failures	28-days follow-up period

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Fernandes Tavora Hospital
• Collaborators: Hospital Bandeirantes; Hospital Santa Luzia; Hospital Samaritano; Hospital da Polícia Militar; Sanatório Los Arcos; Sanatório Trinidad Palermo; Hospital Roosevelt
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Alessandro Pontes-Arruda, MD, MSc, PhD, FCCM, Fernandes Tavora Hospital

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Pontes-Arruda A, Dos Santos MC, Martins LF, Gonzalez ER, Kliger RG, Maia M, Magnan GB; EPICOS Study Group. Influence of parenteral nutrition delivery system on the development of bloodstream infections in critically ill patients: an international, multicenter, prospective, open-label, controlled study--EPICOS study. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2012 Sep;36(5):574-86. doi: 10.1177/0148607111427040. Epub 2012 Jan 23.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: July 1, 2008
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2010
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 25, 2008
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 25, 2008
• First Posted (Estimate): November 26, 2008

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): August 10, 2010
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 9, 2010
• Last Verified: July 1, 2010

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: BSI; olive oil; parenteral nutrition; ready-to-use; customized nutrition formulation; soybean oil; LCT/MCT; Clinoleic; oliclinomel; number of infections associated with TPN delivery system; Infection rates
• Other Study ID Numbers: HFT-001/2008-BR