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RECOMMEND Platform Trial

Phase 3
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Complication
ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
Intensive Care Medicine
Cardiac Arrest (CA)
Critical Illness
Registration Number
NCT06526533
Lead Sponsor
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre
Brief Summary

The goal of this platform trial is to determine the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness of various interventions in patients with acute cardiorespiratory failure requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

The main question the platform trial aims to address is to determine the effect of a range of interventions on survival, organ support and resource utilisation to day 28 for hospitalised patients receiving ECMO.

Researchers will compare various interventions within multiple platform trial domains to see if the interventions have effects on survival, organ support and resource utilisation for the patient cohort.

Participants will be enrolled in accordance with the platform trial's domain structure to answer the research questions.

Detailed Description

The RECOMMEND Platform trial is an investigator initiated, multicentre, open labelled, randomised controlled Platform Trial that will utilise Bayesian adaptive logic to investigate the efficacy and safety of multiple study interventions simultaneously or sequentially in cohorts of adult patients who are receiving ECMO from ICUs participating in the national ECMO registry (EXCEL) in Australian hospitals (EXCEL Registry NCT03793257).

In this platform trial, various interventions will be investigated for their potential to improve outcomes for patients undergoing ECMO.

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is an invasive and resource intensive treatment used to support critically ill patients suffering from severe cardiac arrest, cardiac failure or respiratory failure. ECMO provides mechanical circulatory support, temporarily replacing the function of the heart and/or lungs, allowing time for these organs to recover.

Globally, the use of ECMO has increased rapidly over the past decade. It is both invasive and expensive, with the average cost for a single admission in Australia exceeding more than $180,000 and a total annual cost of \> $75 million. Despite its high cost, ECMO is associated with a high mortality rate, and many survivors have compromised functional recovery for months or years after discharge from hospital, further adding to the long-terms costs of care.

The main complications reported in the national ECMO registry from 2019-2022 include bleeding (51.4%), renal failure and fluid overload (78.4%), and death and ongoing disability (66%). These were confirmed as research priorities by consumers and end-users. While the use of ECMO increases swiftly, the evidence base to support the growing patient numbers receiving this care has not grown at the same rate, resulting in important evidence gaps.

The RECOMMEND Platform Trial will address these evidence gaps in ECMO services in Australia. A platform trial is a type of study design that evaluates multiple treatment interventions for a single condition or device simultaneously within a single, overarching framework. This framework operates similarly to a standard operating procedure for study logistics, ethics management, funding, staffing, and statistical and data collection methods. Having an approved process (platform) for the 'Platform Trial' to operate saves time and money and increases speed of clinical trial onboarding to outcome resolution for researchers, hospital staff, ethics committees, and stakeholders. With this platform in place, future studies of similar ECMO outcomes can be onboarded more efficiently, as described above, and it creates a more powerful pool of data for impactful patient-centred research.

Over the lifetime of RECOMMEND, it is anticipated that new interventions will be added as new domains. The creation of new domains will be considered according to priorities set by relevant working groups, based on existing or new clinical need and there being sufficient statistical power available within RECOMMEND.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
600
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SEQUENTIAL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Daily Organ Support for patients on ECMO (DOSE-score).28-days.

The primary outcome is the Daily Organ Support for patients on ECMO (DOSE-score), a 6-level daily ordinal outcome measured as the worst status of a patient on each day from day 1 through to day 28 inclusive, which reflects survival, organ support and resource utilisation:

1. dead;

2. on ECMO;

3. invasively mechanically ventilated without ECMO;

4. in ICU but not invasively mechanically ventilated nor on ECMO;

5. in hospital; and

6. discharged from the hospital alive.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Development of major haemorrhage at 28 days28-days.

Development of major haemorrhage

Mortality at 28 days28 days

Living status.

ECMO-free days at 28 days28 days

Number of days not receiving ECMO

Development of intracranial haemorrhage at 28 days28 days

Development of intracranial haemorrhage

Ventilator-free days at 28 days28 days

Number of days not receiving ventilation

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

🇦🇺

Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney

🇦🇺

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Alfred Hospital

🇦🇺

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
🇦🇺Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Heidi Buhr
Contact
heidi.buhr@health.nsw.gov.au

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