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Optimizing PreTerm Infant Ampicillin Dosing (OPTI-Amp)

21. maj 2026 opdateret af: Duke University

An Open-label, Pharmacokinetic and Safety Trial Optimizing PreTerm Infant Ampicillin Dosing

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if preterm infants who are prescribed antibiotics shortly after birth can safety receive a shorter course of antibiotics (24 to 36 hours instead of 48 hours). The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Does short-course ampicillin provide high enough levels of ampicillin at 48 hours?
  • Is short-course ampicillin safe for preterm infants to receive?

Preterm infants who are being prescribed ampicillin by their doctor and enroll in the study will stop ampicillin after a shorter than typical course, and researchers will collect blood samples to measure their ampicillin levels and follow them clinically to see how they do after receiving short-course ampicillin.

Participants will:

  • stop ampicillin earlier than 48 hours (between 24 to 36 hours, depending on how premature they are and the dosing of ampicillin their doctor has prescribed)
  • have a blood sample collected around 48 hours from when they started ampicillin
  • have their data collected until 30 days after they receive short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge, whichever is sooner

Studieoversigt

Detaljeret beskrivelse

OPTI-Amp is a prospective, open-label, non-randomized pharmacokinetic and safety trial of short-course ampicillin administered to preterm neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Duke.

The objectives of the study are to 1) evaluate whether short-course ampicillin provides therapeutic exposures for 48 hours from ampicillin initiation for preterm neonates undergoing evaluation of early onset sepsis (EOS) and 2) evaluate the safety of short-course ampicillin compared to standard empiric ampicillin. The prescribing of drugs to infants will not be part of this protocol.

Approximately 60 neonates ≤34 weeks gestational age and <7 days postnatal age at the time of screening, who are receiving empiric ampicillin prescribed per standard of care (SOC) by their treating provider will be enrolled in the study. Participants will be in the study up to 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever is sooner. Enrolled infants who receive short-course ampicillin will have a pharmacokinetic sample collected at 48 (+/-2) hours from the time that ampicillin was initiated. Additional opportunistic pharmacokinetic (PK) samples can be collected between the final ampicillin dose (time of enrollment) and 72 hours from ampicillin initiation if the patient is receiving other SOC labs; however, these are not required. Demographic information, clinical data, and biospecimen information (including date and time of sample collection) will also be collected for enrolled participants.

All enrolled infants will be in the safety population. Those with at least one PK sample will be included in the PK population. In addition to the risks of blood drawing and loss of confidentiality, there may be a risk of under treatment of EOS if clinical cultures result positive after ampicillin discontinuation and therapeutic exposure is not maintained between 24 or 36 hours until 48 hours. Participants that fall under the latter situation will either not be enrolled in the study or will be withdrawn as determined by the study PI.

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Anslået)

60

Fase

  • Fase 2
  • Fase 1

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiekontakt

Studiesteder

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

  • Barn

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Ingen

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Documented informed consent from parent/guardian
  • Infants admitted to the Duke Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
  • less than or equal to 34 completed weeks gestational age (GA) at birth and < 7 days of life at time of screening
  • Prescribed ampicillin by provider per standard of care for evaluation of early onset sepsis

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Infant on extracorporeal support (e.g., ECMO)
  • Positive blood culture or other confirmed infection
  • At time of consent, infants with GA <28 completed weeks who have received more than 24 hours of empiric ampicillin OR infants with GA 28 to 34 completed weeks who have received > 32 to 36 hours of ampicillin, depending on dosing regimen
  • Has major congenital abnormalities where survival to 30 days of life is not expected
  • Failure to obtain consent from parent/guardian
  • Receives a course of ampicillin that is longer (i.e., more doses) than the short-course defined regimen for their GA
  • Any condition which would make the participant, in the opinion of the investigator, unsuitable for the study

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Behandling
  • Tildeling: N/A
  • Interventionel model: Enkelt gruppeopgave
  • Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Eksperimentel: Short-course Ampicillin
Infants enrolled in the trial receive short-course empiric ampicillin (24 to 36 hours, depending on gestational age and prescribed dosing regimen), rather than a standard (48 hour) empiric ampicillin course
preterm infants receive less than 48 hours of prescribed ampicillin (i.e., a "short-course" ampicillin regimen) to provide the desired 48 hours of therapeutic exposures

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Free plasma ampicillin concentration
Tidsramme: data will be collected up to 50 hours from the first dose of ampicillin
Free plasma ampicillin concentration at 48(+/-) 2 hours after ampicillin initiation, following a single gestational age defined short-course with no further ampicillin administration. Target attainment defined as free ampicillin concentration of ≥1 µg/mL. The short-course regimen is considered successful if target attainment is achieved in ≥90% of the overall study population.
data will be collected up to 50 hours from the first dose of ampicillin

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tidsramme
Serious, unexpected, suspected adverse reactions to ampicillin
Tidsramme: Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge
Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge
Adverse events related to study procedures
Tidsramme: Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge
Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge
All-cause mortality at 30 days
Tidsramme: Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge
Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge
Antibiotic re-initiation within 7 days of short-course ampicillin
Tidsramme: Data will be collected until 7 days from short-course ampicillin
Data will be collected until 7 days from short-course ampicillin
Culture-confirmed bacteremia within 7 days of short-course ampicillin
Tidsramme: Data will be collected until 7 days from short-course ampicillin
Data will be collected until 7 days from short-course ampicillin
Necrotizing enterocolitis within 30 days of short-course ampicillin
Tidsramme: Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge
Data will be collected until 30 days from short-course ampicillin, or until hospital discharge

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Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart (Anslået)

1. juli 2026

Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)

1. juli 2027

Studieafslutning (Anslået)

1. december 2027

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

21. maj 2026

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

21. maj 2026

Først opslået (Faktiske)

28. maj 2026

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

28. maj 2026

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

21. maj 2026

Sidst verificeret

1. maj 2026

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • Pro00119855
  • 1K23HD113839 (U.S. NIH-bevilling/kontrakt)

Plan for individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)

Planlægger du at dele individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)?

JA

IPD-planbeskrivelse

All IPD collected for study purposes will be shared to the NICHD DASH data repository.

IPD-delingstidsramme

The IPD and supporting information will be available once data analysis is complete and will be available per NICHD DASH repository timelines.

IPD-delingsadgangskriterier

Qualified researchers and scientists from academic, non-profit, and for-profit institutions can access data sent to NICHD DASH repository for secondary analysis. Access is controlled, requiring approval from the DASH Data Access Committee (DAC) after the investigator submits a research proposal, a data use agreement (DUA), and a study-specific Data Management and Sharing Plan.

IPD-deling Understøttende informationstype

  • STUDY_PROTOCOL
  • ICF

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