Vagus Nerve Stimulation ARDS Prevention Trial for COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Cumulative incidence of successful tracheal extubation at day 14 since symptom onset.
研究概览
简要总结
This trial is designed to determine if the inflammation modulating effect of vagus nerve stimulation can improve pulmonary function and limit progression to ARDS in hospitalized COVID-19 hospitalized patients.
详细描述
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 predominantly die of organ failure due to a surge of pro-inflammatory cytokines triggering the need for mechanical ventilation, often due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Known as a cytokine storm, the surge in cytokines is similar to the excessive inflammatory reaction associated with septic shock.
Anti-viral agents will most likely be required to reduce the molecular viral burden in COVID-19 patients, but an additional approach to control the damaging cytokine release is required to alter the course of disease in hospitalized patients and improve chances of survival. Immunosuppressant drugs may reduce inflammation and the tissue damaging cytokines, but they could also be detrimental by inhibiting natural anti-viral immune responses (i.e., suppression of interferons), thereby delaying viral clearance and increasing the risk of secondary infections and death.
The reason for the severity of the disease course in some individuals may lie in the regulation of the immune system by the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is involved in an inflammation controlling reflex similar to the blood pressure regulating baroreflex. The vagus inflammatory reflex is triggered when the afferent vagus nerve senses inflammatory products through peripheral receptors.
Vagus nerve activity is relayed through the central nervous system to the efferent vagus nerve. This pathway involves the splenic nerve, which when activated releases norepinephrine and results in suppression of pro-inflammatory cytokine production by macrophages and alleviates inflammation in many pathological settings (e.g., endotoxemia, peritonitis, or acute kidney injury).
Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve using VNS can improve the body's natural ability to regulate the inflammatory response and may be potent enough to suppress pro-inflammatory cytokines and prevent death from COVID-19, especially if used early enough in the course of hospitalization.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients who are 18 years of age
- •Tested positive or suspected/presumed positive for COVID-19 infection
- •Patients requiring hospital admission moderate to severe pneumonia and pneumopathy
- •Patients showing fever and respiratory symptoms with radiological findings of pneumonia
- •Respiratory distress (≧30 breaths/ min) or Oxygen saturation ≤93% at rest in ambient air; or oxygen saturation ≤97 % with O2 > 5L/min
- •Patient is able to provide signed and witnessed Informed Consent
排除标准
- •Already enrolled in a trial for COVID-19 therapy
- •Potentially life threatening heart rhythm
- •Pregnancy or potential pregnancy
- •Current implantation of an electrical and/or neurostimulator device, including but not limited to a cardiac pacemaker or defibrillator, vagal neurostimulator, deep brain stimulator, spinal stimulator, bone growth stimulator, or cochlear implant
- •History of aneurysm, intracranial hemorrhage, brain tumors, or significant head trauma
- •Belongs to a vulnerable population or has any condition such that his or her ability to provide informed consent, comply with the follow-up requirements, or provide self-assessments is compromised (e.g. homeless, developmentally disabled and prisoner)
结局指标
主要结局
Cumulative incidence of successful tracheal extubation at day 14 since symptom onset.
时间窗: Day 14 since symptom onset
Successful tracheal extubation
Survival without need of mechanical ventilation
时间窗: Day 14 since symptom onset
Survival
次要结局
- Survival at day 14 of hospitalization(Day 14)
- Duration of hospitalization(Day 28)