A Phase 2, Randomised, Single-Blind, Placebo-controlled Study of Half Molar Sodium Lactate Solution in the Treatment of Subjects With Acute Heart Failure
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Intervention
- 0.5M Sodium lactate
- Conditions
- Acute Heart Failure
- Sponsor
- Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District
- Enrollment
- 41
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Efficacy
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 12 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The objective of this trial to see whether:
-Cardiac performance (cardiac index and secondary outcomes)can be improved in patients with acute heart failure (AHF) and symptoms and consequences of fluid overload (pulmonary and interstitial edema) and poor peripheral perfusion can be reduced by:
- Providing lactate as a substrate(Improve cardiac index)
- Simultaneously restoring optimal preload
Optimal standard treatment will be achieved in both arms with the use of current best treatment protocol for AHF as per independent treating physician.
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To assess effects of 0.5M Na lactate (Totilac) on plasma and urine biological parameters (sodium, potassium, chloride, pH, bicarb, base excess, albumin)
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To assess effects of 0.5M Na lactate on morbidity and mortality.
Detailed Description
* Acute heart failure is a critical illness for which current treatments are suboptimal. * The various symptoms are related to inadequate cardiac output and usually include left ventricular overload with pulmonary oedema, interstitial fluid accumulation and tissue oedema (as indicated by frequent hyponatremia and hypoalbuminemia) and insufficient peripheral perfusion frequently manifesting as cold extremities and low urine output. * The current treatment of this syndrome is based on diuretics, vasodilators and/or inotropes, but fluid administration is also required to optimise the intravascular volume state and to reverse shock if present. Therefore management of body fluid balance remains a challenge since treatment aims to simultaneously maintain or improve intravascular volume and decrease body fluid excess and oedema. * The purpose of the present study is to assess in a prospective randomised trial the efficacy and safety of a newly designed crystalloid solution, 0.5 M sodium lactate, with properties potentially able to improve multiple pathophysiological aspects of AHF, as compared to the use of standard crystalloid solution Compound Sodium Lactate (mildly hypoosmolar \~ 274 mOsm/L and isotonic).
Investigators
Marek Nalos
Staff Specialist, Intensive Care Medicine
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Age: more than 18 years
- •Heart failure criteria:
- •Left heart failure: as evidenced by 2 out of 3:
- •Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 40% and cardiac index ≤ 2.5 L/min/m2
- •Acute pulmonary oedema of cardiac origin or mechanical ventilation (including CPAP/BIPAP) for respiratory failure of predominantly cardiac origin
- •Need for inotropes/vasopressors for cardiac pump failure OR
- •Right heart failure: as evidenced by 1 out of 2:
- •Bilateral leg oedema above ankles
- •RV failure (low tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE), dilated floppy RV)
- •Poor peripheral perfusion as evidenced by 2 out of 3:
Exclusion Criteria
- •Hypernatremia: \[Na\] \>145 mmol/L
- •Diagnosed hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- •Uncorrected severe valvular heart disease
- •Documented third degree heart block, sustained ventricular tachycardia
- •Documented cardiac tamponade
- •Septic shock
- •Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- •Moribund patients likely to die before 24h
- •Patients with major diseases of limited prognosis such as end stage cancer,end-stage liver failure, end stage dialysis dependent renal failure
- •Patients with absolute indication for acute hemodialysis/hemofiltration (pH, K, urea \> 35 mmol/L, severe fluid overload in the presence of oliguria \< 200 mL/6h.
Arms & Interventions
0.5M Sodium lactate
A bolus of 0.5M Sodium lactate of 3 ml per kg body weight (BW) is administered in 15 minutes, followed by a continuous infusion with 1 ml per kg per hour for 24 hours, i.e. in total 27 ml per kg over 24 hours
Intervention: 0.5M Sodium lactate
Hartmann's solution
Hartmann's solution of 3 ml per kg BW is administered in 15 minutes. There is NO continuous infusion infused thereafter; i.e. in total 3 ml per kg over 24 hours
Intervention: Hartmann's solution
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Efficacy
Time Frame: Baseline till 24 hours from first loading of study drug
Improvement in cardiac output measured by transthoracic echocardiography at 24 hours from initiation of study drug infusion
Secondary Outcomes
- mortality(up to 3 month)
- organ function(48 hours)
- acid base and electrolytes, fluid balance(48 hours)