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Prevention of Ulinastatin on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Critical Illness
Interventions
Other: Usual care
Registration Number
NCT03089957
Lead Sponsor
Peking University Third Hospital
Brief Summary

Since strategies were applied in intensive care medicine, including low tidal volume ventilation, fluid resuscitation, use of antibiotics, restrictive transfusion strategy and bundle of ventilator therapy, the incidence of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) has been decreased recent years. However, the mortality of severe ARDS is still higher to 45%. Few medications did were indicated to be effective in working on development of ARDS. Different with other disease, ARDS were difficult to prevent in its later stage like a domino effect. The medication interventions are all used after ARDS was developed, including ulinastatin. The investigators hypothesized that the key point in failure of medication therapy is the delay timing of medication intervention. If given the preventive strategy, such as ulinastatin, the incidence or the severity of ARDS might be decreased. Therefore this is a randomized controlled trial to test the hypothesis of the preventive effect of ulinastatin in ARDS.

This is a multi-center, randomized, double blinded, placebo controlled study.

Detailed Description

Since strategies were applied in intensive care medicine, including low tidal volume ventilation, fluid resuscitation, use of antibiotics, restrictive transfusion strategy and bundle of ventilator therapy, the incidence of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) has been decreased recent years. However, the mortality of severe ARDS is still higher to 45%. Few medications did were indicated to be effective in working on development of ARDS. Different with other disease, ARDS were difficult to prevent in its later stage like a domino effect. The medication interventions are all used after ARDS was developed, including ulinastatin. The investigators hypothesized that the key point in failure of medication therapy is the delay timing of medication intervention. If given the preventive strategy, such as ulinastatin, the incidence or the severity of ARDS might be decreased.

Ulinastatin is a urinary trypsin inhibitor (UTI) that inhibits various inflammatory proteases has been widely used in China, Japan, and Korea for the treatment of patients with inflammatory disorders, postoperative organs protection, shock, and pancreatitis.

Therefore this is a randomized controlled trial to test the hypothesis of the preventive effect of ulinastatin in ARDS.

This is a multi-center, randomized, double blinded, placebo controlled study.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
840
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients should be more than 18 years old
  • Patients are expected to living within 72 hours of ICU admission
  • Patients' Lung Injury Prediction Score (LIPS) more than 4 and got at least 1 risk factors as below: bacteremia, sepsis or sepsis shock, pneumonia, multiple fractures, pulmonary contusion, aspiration, multiple blood transfusion, severe acute pancreatitis.
Exclusion Criteria

Patients will be excluded when they are

  • diagnosed as ARDS
  • without written informed consent
  • with HIV infection
  • with other immunologic deficiency (leukaemia, immune deficiency syndrome, etc)
  • with organ transplantation or bone marrow transplantation
  • with chronic pulmonary disease (except for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or asthma)
  • with angitis
  • with neutropenia (except for secondary to sepsis)
  • using granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
  • using asprin or clopidogrel
  • using glucocorticoid
  • withdrawing treatment
  • treated by Xuebijing, thymosin, or intravenous immunoglobulin 1 month before enrollment
  • enrolled in other clinical trials 3 months before enrollment
  • being pregnancy
  • being lactation

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Ulinastatin groupUsual care200,000 IU ulinastatin will be dissolved in 100 mL of 0.9% normal saline by continuous intravenous infusion for 1h, 3 times per day for 5 days.
Control groupUsual careControl group will be in usual care without any intervention.
Ulinastatin groupUlinastatin200,000 IU ulinastatin will be dissolved in 100 mL of 0.9% normal saline by continuous intravenous infusion for 1h, 3 times per day for 5 days.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The incidence of ARDS3 years
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Total cost in admission3 years
Adverse events related to drugs.3 years
Lengths of ICU3 years
The numbers of ARDS patients who meet the criteria for mild, moderate, and severe using the Berlin Definition, separately.3 years

The severity of ARDS will be assessed by the Berlin Definition in mild, moderate and severe ARDs according to oxygenation.

The number of patients who need mechanical ventilation3 years
The incidence of other organ disorders3 years
Mortality of 28 days0-28 days
Lengths of mechanical ventilation3 years
Lengths of stay3 years
Mortality of 60 days0-60 days

Trial Locations

Locations (10)

Beijing Shijitan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University

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Beijing, Beijing, China

Central Hospital of Zi Bo

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Zibo, Shandong, China

CANGZHOU People's Hospital

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Cangzhou, Hebei, China

Peking University Third Hospital

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Beijing, Beijing, China

Beijing Anzhen Hospital ,Capital Medical University

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Beijing, Beijing, China

The first affiliated hospital of Guangxi Medical University

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Nanning, Guangxi, China

Chinese Pla General Hospital

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Beijing, Beijing, China

Peking University Shenzhen Hospital

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Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

The second hospital of dalian medical university

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Dalian, Liaoning, China

The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

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Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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