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Clinical Trials/2024-519024-25-00
2024-519024-25-00
Not yet recruiting
Phase 2

Faecal Bacteriotherapy for Postantibiotic Diarrhoea in Critically Ill Patients – Randomised Controlled Trial

Fakultni Nemocnice Kralovske Vinohrady1 site in 1 country36 target enrollmentStarted: December 3, 2024Last updated:

Overview

Phase
Phase 2
Status
Not yet recruiting
Sponsor
Fakultni Nemocnice Kralovske Vinohrady
Enrollment
36
Locations
1
Primary Endpoint
Percentage of patients with treatment failure at day 7 after randomisation.

Overview

Brief Summary

Percentage of patients with treatment failure at day 7 after randomisation. Treatment failure is defined as either failure to administer allocated treatment for any reason or the presence of diarrhoea on day 7 after randomisation.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
18 years to 65+ years (18-64 Years, 65+ Years)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Inclusion Criteria

  • Signed informed consent
  • Age > 18 yrs.
  • In-patient in ICU or HDU (incl. burn unit) and expected to stay for >7 days
  • Diarrhoea following antibiotic treatment defined as 3 or more stools per day or Bristol type 7 stool in the volume >300 ml/day if stool derivative device is in place, persisting for 24 hours despite enteral feeding formula has been stopped

Exclusion Criteria

  • Death appears imminent or ceilings of care put in place, presence of new-onset sepsis defined as per 2016 definition, lactate >2.0 mM, colon diameter > 9 cm on plain AXR, the necessity of ongoing antibiotic treatment for another reasons.
  • Unable to tolerate enema for any reason (e.g. surgery of the GI tract in the past year).
  • Pregnant and lactating woman
  • Patients with a history of severe anaphylactic food allergy, any other reason which – as per judgement of the treating clinician – makes faecal transplantation unsafe or not feasible

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Percentage of patients with treatment failure at day 7 after randomisation.

Percentage of patients with treatment failure at day 7 after randomisation.

Secondary Outcomes

  • Composite number of adverse events such as new-onset sepsis, toxic mega-colon, positive post FBT blood culture, or other SAE assessed by the physi-cian-in-charge as possibly related to FBT.
  • SOFA score at days 4 and 7.
  • Percentage of patients that are recurrence-free at time of hospital discharge or day 28, whichever occur earlier.
  • Subgroup analysis will be performed for patients who are C. dif. positive vs. negative and those who will receive antibiotics for a new extraabdominal in-fection vs. those who do not.

Investigators

Sponsor
Fakultni Nemocnice Kralovske Vinohrady
Sponsor Class
Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility
Responsible Party
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator

Dr Frantisek Duska, PhD

Scientific

Fakultni Nemocnice Kralovske Vinohrady

Study Sites (1)

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