Efficacy and Safety of Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated) in Adult Patients with Septic Shock
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- SepsisHealth Condition 2: R579- Shock, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2009/091/000022
- Lead Sponsor
- Eli Lilly and Company India Pvt Ltd
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 1696
Patients are eligible to be included in the study only if they meet the following criteria. Criteria [1] through [4] must be met at the time of study entry/informed consent signed; Criterion [5] must be met at the time of enrollment/randomization.
[1] Must be an adult (>=18 years old)
[2] Must have evidence of an infection for which the patient is receiving intravenous antimicrobial therapy (refer to Protocol Attachment EVDP.4 for guidelines).
[3] Must have systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). Patients must meet at least 2 of the criteria defined below during the 36 hours prior to study entry.
(a) Core temperature >=38° C (100.4° F) or <=36° C (96.8° F). Core temperature is defined as rectal, central catheter, or tympanic. If oral or axillary temperature is used, add 0.5° C or 1° F to the measured value. Hypothermia (<=36° C or 96.8° F) must be determined by a rectal or central catheter temperature.
(b) Heart rate >=90 beats/minute.
(c) Respiratory rate >=20 breaths per minute or a PaCO2 <=32 mm Hg or mechanical ventilation for an acute process.
(d) White blood cell count of >=12,000/mm3 or <=4000/mm3 or >10% immature neutrophils
[4] Must have septic shock, which is defined as the following:
(a) The patient must have received >=30 mL/kg of intravenous fluid during the resuscitation period. The resuscitation period begins 4 hours prior to the initiation of vasopressor therapy and ends 4 hours after start of vasopressor therapy).
(b) The patient must have a continuous requirement for vasopressor support for at least 4 hours at a minimum dose of at least 1 of the vasopressors shown below:
• norepinephrine >=5 mcg/min
• dopamine >=10 mcg/kg/min
• phenylephrine >=25 mcg/min
• epinephrine >=5 mcg/min
• vasopressin >=0.03 units/min
(c) Must have clinical signs consistent with hypoperfusion. The patient must meet at least 1 of the following criteria during the 36 hours prior to study entry:
• Metabolic acidosis: base deficit >=5.0 mEq/L or venous bicarbonate <18 mEq/L or lactate >=2.5 mMol/L.
• Acute oliguria/renal injury: urine output <0.5 mL/kg/h for 1 hour or a 50% increase in creatinine from a known or calculated baseline level (estimated using the MDRD equation or a similar estimation of baseline creatinine, refer to Protocol Attachment EVDP.6). Patients with a history of chronic renal disease must meet the metabolic acidosis or acute hepatic dysfunction criterion.
• Acute hepatic dysfunction: AST or ALT >500 IU/dL or bilirubin >2 g/dL. Patients with a history of acute hepatitis or chronic liver disease must meet the metabolic acidosis or oliguria/renal injury criterion for evidence of hypoperfusion.
[5] Patients must remain vasopressor dependent throughout the pretreatment period and through the time of randomization at any vasopressor dose with the goal of maintaining a systolic blood pressure of approximately 90 mm Hg or higher or a mean arterial pressure of approximately 65 mm Hg or higher with reasonable attempts made to wean the patient from vasopressor support, if applicable. (Note: dopamine at doses <5 mcg/kg/min does not fulfill the criteria for vasopressor dependency.)
Patients will be excluded from the study if they meet any of the following criteria:
[6] Have receivedvasopressor therapy (at any dose) for greater than 24 hours prior to the start of study drug.
[7] Have sepsis-induced organ dysfunction (respiratory, renal, hematologic, or unexplained metabolic acidosis; refer to Protocol Attachment EVDP.3 for definitions) for greater than 36 hours prior to the start of the study drug infusion.
[8] Have single organ dysfunction and recent surgery (within 30 days of study entry). Surgery is defined as a surgical procedure that requires general or spinal anesthesia or a biopsy or surgical procedure of a closed space in which there is a high risk of significant bleeding and it would not be possible to control bleeding by external pressure.
[9] Have had surgery performed within the 12-hour period immediately preceding the study drug infusion, or are postoperative with evidence of active bleeding, or have planned or anticipated surgery during the infusion period (for example, patients with staged surgeries or burn patients with planned excisions and grafting; peritoneal lavage alone is not considered planned surgery). (Refer to exclusion criterion [8] for definition of surgery.)
[10] Have a platelet count <30,000/mm3.
[11] Have a prothrombin time-international normalized ratio (INR) >5.0.
[12] Have active internal bleeding or are at increased risk for bleeding, for example:
(a) History (within the previous 3 months) of stroke or severe head trauma that required hospitalization or intracranial surgery.
(b) History of intracranial arteriovenous malformation, cerebral aneurysm, or central nervous system mass lesion.
(c) Patients with an epidural catheter in place or who are anticipated to receive an epidural catheter during the study drug infusion.
(d) History of congenital bleeding diatheses (for example, hemophilia).
(e) Gastrointestinal bleeding within the 6 weeks prior to study entry that required medical intervention unless definitive/curative endoscopic procedure or surgery has been performed.
(f) Patients with known esophageal varices, chronic jaundice, cirrhosis, or chronic ascites.
(g) Trauma patients at increased risk of life-threatening bleeding (for example, flail chest; significant contusion to lung, liver, or spleen; retroperitoneal bleed; pelvic fracture; compartment syndrome).
[13] Are receiving any of the following medications at study entry or will have a concurrent need for any of the following medications during the study drug infusion:
(a) Therapeutic heparin, defined as unfractionated heparin >15,000 U/day within 8 hours of study entry or low molecular weight heparin used at any dose higher or more frequent than the recommended dose in the product label for DVT prophylaxis within 12 hours of study entry.
(b) Direct thrombin inhibitors, such as argatroban, ximelagatran, melagatran, bivalirudin, lepirudin, or recombinant hirudins within 3 days of study entry
(c) Thrombolytic therapy, such as streptokinase, tPA, rPA, or urokinase (unless used to treat intra-catheter thrombosis) within 3 days of study entry.
(d) Warfarin, if used within 7 days of study entry or warfarin-type medications within 5 half-lives of study entry and where the prothrombin time is prolonged beyond the upper limit of normal
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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