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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05513690
Amnioinfusion for Intrauterine Neuroprotection
Amnioinfusion for Intrauterine Neuroprotection: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), a serious brain injury in infants, occurs in 2-9 per 1,000 infants after delivery. Up to 60% of infants diagnosed with HIE die and 25% of the survivors have long-term neurologic deficits. Risk factors for HIE include abnormal fetal heart tracings and intrauterine infection. In addition, maternal fever is associated with a four to five-fold increased risk of HIE. Two phases leading to HIE are recognized: neuronal death from cellular hypoxia and further injury from exhaustion of energy stores.
Therapeutic cooling of infants with HIE provides neuroprotection by reducing metabolic demands and suppressing toxic processes. Studies show that whole-body cooling of infants reduces the risk of neurologic motor and cognitive deficits with brain imaging suggesting that human infants who are cooled earlier have a greater benefit. Moreover, animal studies show that brain cooling may be more beneficial when given in utero at the time of an insult during the first phase of cellular hypoxia, rather than after delivery. Though therapeutic cooling in utero has yet to be explored in humans, an established in utero fluid delivery system-amnioinfusion- provides a unique opportunity for in utero intervention.
Amnioinfusion (AI), the administration of fluid via an intrauterine catheter inserted through the cervix, is a common intervention during labor to improve fetal heart tracings and reduce cesarean delivery. Introduced in 1983, it used warm saline due to a theoretical concern for fetal shock from cold fluids. Subsequent studies showed no advantage of warm fluids, and fluids at room temperature (~25oC) have become standard. AI can lower in utero temperature by 1.0°C (36.4°C versus 37.4°C, P<0.01). This 1.0°C degree of cooling has been associated a 6% reduction in brain energy utilization which could be protective against neurological injury. This suggests that AI can be leveraged to lower in utero and fetal temperatures to protect against neurologic injury.
Expanding the indication for AI is a novel approach to reduce neurologic injury in utero. However, there is a gap in the acceptability and efficacy of amnioinfusion for this indication. To fill this gap, we propose a pilot randomized controlled trial to test the feasibility and effects of amnioinfusion with fluids at room temperature on infants at high risk for neurologic injury including HIE.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Sue Elmore, MS,CRRP
- Phone Number: 48675 401-274-1122
- Email: selmore@carene.org
Study Locations
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Rhode Island
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02905
- Recruiting
- Women and Infant's Hospital of Rhode Island
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Contact:
- Brock Polnaszek, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Maternal age >18 years old
- Singleton
- Term gestational age at time of admission (>37 weeks 0 days);
Exclusion Criteria:
- Major fetal anomaly
- Active substance or alcohol use
- Contraindications to intrauterine pressure catheter placement (e.g. placental previa, human immunodeficiency virus, Hepatitis C)
- Fetal growth restriction
- Inability to consent
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Amnioinfusion at room temperature (intervention arm)
Routine amnioinfusion will be administered via an intrauterine catheter inserted through the cervix.
Normal saline at room temperature will be infused per hospital protocol at a rate of 600 milliliters/hour for the first hour followed by 180 milliliters/hour.
A plastic applicator will be used to introduce a flexible disposable general-purpose temperature probe into the uterus.
The probe will be guided to the contralateral side of the uterus from the intrauterine pressure catheter.
Intrauterine temperature will then be measured by DataThermII continuous temperature monitor.
This monitor has accuracy of 0.1 °C and will store temperature measurements every 10 minutes until delivery.
The temperature data will be downloaded into a computer software.
The DataThermII has been previously used in prior research to measure intrauterine temperature.
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Routine amnioinfusion and intrauterine temperature probe sensor
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NO_INTERVENTION: Standard of care (control arm)
Women in this group will have the temperature probe placed and temperate measured as described in experimental arm.
They will otherwise receive current standard of care (i.e.
no amnioinfusion).
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Umbilical artery lactate
Time Frame: Within 15 minutes of delivery
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Cord blood lactate at the time of delivery
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Within 15 minutes of delivery
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of eligible patients who consent to study
Time Frame: Throughout study completion, an average of 1 year
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Number of patients approached and consented
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Throughout study completion, an average of 1 year
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Ottawa Decisional self-efficacy scale
Time Frame: Scale collected once from date of delivery following randomization until hospital discharge but within the first week
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The Decisional Self-Efficacy Scale measures self-confidence or belief in one's ability to make decisions, including participate in shared decision making will be compared between arms.
The scale consists of 11 questions on a five-point Likert scale from 0 to 5. Scores range from 0 (not at all confident) to 100 (very confident).
A score of 0 means extremely low self efficacy and a score of 100 means extremely high self efficacy.
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Scale collected once from date of delivery following randomization until hospital discharge but within the first week
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Labour Agentry Scale
Time Frame: Scale collected once from date of delivery following randomization until hospital discharge but within the first week
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Labour Agentry Scale, an instrument measuring expectancies and experiences of personal control during childbirth will be compared between arms.
The Labour Agentry Scale consists of 29 short affirmative statements (e.g.
'I felt confident' and 'I felt tense').
Respondents were asked to rate each statement on a seven-point Likert scale from 1 (representing rarely) to 7 (representing almost always).
Possible total scores for the Labour Agentry Scale range from 29 (indicating feelings of control rarely) to 203 (reflecting feelings of control almost always).
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Scale collected once from date of delivery following randomization until hospital discharge but within the first week
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Intrauterine temperature
Time Frame: 10-minute intervals from date/time of randomization until date/time of delivery, assessed only until fetus is delivered or end of second stage of labor.
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Temperature of uterus
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10-minute intervals from date/time of randomization until date/time of delivery, assessed only until fetus is delivered or end of second stage of labor.
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Neonatal core temperature
Time Frame: Within 10 minutes of birth
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Core temperature
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Within 10 minutes of birth
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Electronic fetal monitoring
Time Frame: 10-minute intervals from date/time of randomization until date/time of delivery, assessed only until fetus is delivered or end of second stage of labor.
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Electronic fetal monitoring recordings will be obtained with external and internal monitors, as clinically indicated.
Five elements of the electronic fetal monitoring recording will be extracted using the strict and unambiguous definitions from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) criteria and then used to categorize the electronic fetal monitoring recordings into 1 of the 3 accepted categories: I, II, or III, as well as quantitatively and semi-quantitatively.
The percent of each of the five categories, individual 5 elements will be collected.
This methodology has been previously validated/used and published.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29408586/.
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10-minute intervals from date/time of randomization until date/time of delivery, assessed only until fetus is delivered or end of second stage of labor.
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Montevideo units
Time Frame: 10-minute intervals from date/time of randomization until date/time of delivery, assessed only until fetus is delivered or end of second stage of labor.
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Calculated from intrauterine pressure catheter
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10-minute intervals from date/time of randomization until date/time of delivery, assessed only until fetus is delivered or end of second stage of labor.
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Number of patients with composite and individual neonatal morbidity
Time Frame: Collected following delivery and/or within 6 weeks postpartum
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Neonatal death, neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, supplemental oxygen, mechanical ventilation, intubation, sepsis confirmed by culture, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, seizures, Apgar score <5, and neonatal intensive care unit admission
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Collected following delivery and/or within 6 weeks postpartum
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Number of patients with composite and individual maternal morbidity
Time Frame: Collected following delivery and/or within 6 weeks postpartum
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Amniotic fluid embolism, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary edema, intubation, post-partum hemorrhage, blood transfusion, hysterectomy, disseminated intravascular coagulation, endometritis, chorioamnionitis, and sepsis.
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Collected following delivery and/or within 6 weeks postpartum
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Number of patients with placental pathology available
Time Frame: For all patients who are randomization until date/time of delivery of placenta up to 6 weeks or 36 days after delivery.
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Pathologic lesions
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For all patients who are randomization until date/time of delivery of placenta up to 6 weeks or 36 days after delivery.
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Brock Polnaszek, MD, Waren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Women and Infant's Hospital
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- WIHRI
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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