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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03982667
Research Title: Efficacy and Safety of Point- Of-care Procalcitonin Test to Reduce Antibiotic Exposure in VAP
Research Title: Efficacy and Safety of Point- Of-care Procalcitonin Test to Reduce Antibiotic Exposure in Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Patient in ICU: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Pneumonia remains one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) worldwide. In Malaysia, according to the Malaysian Registry of Intensive Care 2016, pneumonia was among the four (5.7%) most common diagnosis leading to admission to ICU. In many scenario, pneumonia associated with severe sepsis either as single source of sepsis or in combination with other source of infection which carry mortality mortality reported 53.4% 1. Timely, appropriate and adequate antibiotic therapy is of paramount importance in the critically ill patients with severe pneumonia. However, overly long antibiotic treatment is undesirable because of side effects, increasing antibiotic resistance2 and financial burden to patient and Malaysia Healthcare.
Antibiotic remain the main weapon to combat pneumonia. Nevertheless, rampant use of antibiotic without specific indicator is vain. Hence, with the latest technology, physicians not only rely on clinical improvement but also specific biomarkers for resolution of sepsis which might assist the ICU physicians in making decisions on antibiotic therapy on an individual basis.
Commonest used biomarkers for this purpose include leucocyte count and C-reactive protein (CRP). These biomarkers are sensitive but not specific. Procalcitonin (PCT) however has been advocated as a biomarker with a better specificity and sensitivity for diagnosis and follow-up of severe bacterial infections.
PCT is the prohormone of calcitonin. It consists of about 116 amino-acids. The locus of formation in classical pathway is the C-cells of the thyroid. In case of bacterial infection, PCT is formed in all tissues via an alternative pathway. Linscheid et al. 2004 described, in case of bacterial infection two mechanisms of synthesis are at work. At first cytokine-stimulated adherent monocytes release PCT in low quantities. This synthesis is limited. But it plays an important role in the initiation of PCT synthesis in storage tissues of humans. This PCT burst is initiated in all storage tissues (>18h). PCT is a perfect tool to differentiate between viral and bacterial infections (e.g. Gendrel et al. 1999). This is why in septic patients extremely high concentrations of PCT were found in the plasma (about 100,000-fold of the physiological concentration in healthy subjects).
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Kelantan
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Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, 16150
- Mohd Zulfakar Mazlan, MBBS
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Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, 16150
- Mohd Zulfakar Mazlan
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Participation Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 years and above; and
- Admitted to the ICU; and
- Receive their first dose of antibiotics no longer than 24 h before inclusion to the trial for an assumed or proven bacterial infection.
- Treated as Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Systemic antibiotics as prophylaxis only
- Antibiotics solely as part of selective decontamination of the digestive tract
- Prolonged therapy (eg, endocarditis)
- Expected ICU stay of less than 24 h
- Severe immunosuppression
- Severe infections due to non-bacterial causes
- Previously been enrolled in the study
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Double
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: PCT group
For patients randomly assigned to the PCT-guided group, measurements of serum PCT concentrations (Day 1, 3, 7, and 9) will be taken and made available to the attending physicians.
This means 3 ml of whole blood will be sampled from the arterial line of the patients for each measurement the serum PCT in plain tubes.
The samples will be immediately assayed for the PCT measurement using the available device and the results will be ready in next 30 minutes after running the system.
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In the PCT-guided group, the study protocol encourages to stop the prescribed antibiotics if PCT concentration decrease by 80% or more of its peak value (or if PCT concentration is ≥0·25 and <0·5 μg/L), and strongly encourage to stop the prescribed antibiotics when it reaches a value of < 0·25 μg/L.
The attending physician is free to decide whether to continue antibiotic treatment in patients who reach these thresholds.
Reasons for non-adherence will be recorded.
Antibiotics in the standard-of-care group will be stopped according to local or national guidelines and according to the discretion of attending physicians.
Patients will be followed-up until hospital discharge.
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No Intervention: Standard-of-care group
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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To compare the duration of antibiotic treatment between PCT and standard of care groups
Time Frame: 3 to 14 days
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Most of the antiobiotic duration is about 5 - 14 days.
In Ventilated Associated Pneumonia, the duration of antibiotic treatment is difficult to stop since the patient stil in intensive care unit due to multiple factors.
Therefore the use of PCT guided might be useful.
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3 to 14 days
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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To compare the mortality between PCT and standard of care
Time Frame: 30 days
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Malaysia Sepsis Mortality rate is nearly 50%.
This could be because of higher APACHE score.
In PCT guided group, the antibiotic might be stop earlier if clinically indicated.
Therefore, the rate of patient die in this group is very important to assess the safety of using this point of care PCT in ICU.
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30 days
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To compare the rate of recurrence infection between PCT and standard of care
Time Frame: 30 days
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By stopping antibiotics earlier, the is possibility risk of recurrent infection if the source of infection is not adequately treated.
Therefore the number of recurrence infection is required in PCT group to assess the safety of using PCT guided antibiotic in ICU
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30 days
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Collaborators and Investigators
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Other Study ID Numbers
- USMalaysia
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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