The NIPA Study Naloxegol Administration to Prevent Opioids Induced Gastrointestinal Motility Disturbance in Brain Injured PAtients

Phase 3

Recruiting

• Conditions: Brain Injuries
• Interventions: Drug: Placebo; Drug: Naloxegol

• Registration Number: NCT05008926
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Brest

Brief Summary

Impaired gastrointestinal transit (IGT) especially constipation, is common among patients under mechanical ventilation, occurring in up to 80 % of the patients during the first week, and has been associated with worse outcome in intensive care unit (ICU). Although IGT in critically ill patients is multifactorial and some components are due to complex disease, there is increasing evidence that exogenous opioids contribute to bowel dysmotility.

Sedatives and especially opioids are largely used in the brain injured population to control intracranial pression, reduce metabolic rate, manage or prevent seizures, and improve mechanical ventilator synchrony. Therefore, brain injured patients are particularly at risk to develop IGT. The occurrence of IGT is associated with adverse outcomes in intensive care unit. Both gastric reflux and impaired peristaltic contractions are associated with ventilator-acquired pneumonia.

The actual challenge is to prevent motility disorders before it occurs. A preventive strategy could in turn reduce the occurrence of complications related to impaired gastrointestinal transit such as ventilator-acquired pneumonia, bacteremia etc. It could also reduce the complications of feed intolerance and thus reduce morbidity and mortality in ICU.

Naloxegol is a polyethylene glycol derivative of naloxol, which is a derivative of naloxone and a peripherally acting µ-opioid receptor antagonist. Contrary to naloxone, naloxegol has a very low penetration into the central nervous system, therefore it could be a relevant option for ileus prevention without the risk of impaired sedation.

The aim of our study is to assess the efficacy of the administration of naloxegol on the onset of early constipation and early ventilator-acquired pneumonia in brain injured patients receiving opioids for analgosedation.

Detailed Description

Multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled experimental study of Naloxegol.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-08-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-08-16
• Study First Posted: 2021-08-17
• Study Start: 2022-03-15
• Status Verified: 2024-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-12-13
• Last Update Posted: 2024-12-16
• Primary Completion: 2025-10
• Study Completion: 2026-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 370

Inclusion Criteria

1. Age ≥ to 18 years old
2. Admission to intensive care unit for traumatic brain injury or subarachnoid hemorrhage without other life-threatening injury
3. Patients under sedation with administration of opiate-agonists, μ receptor agonists (Sufentanil, Fentanyl, Remifentanil, Morphine) for less than 24 hours
4. Expected duration of invasive mechanical ventilation and sedation of 48 hours or more
5. Intracranial pressure monitoring
6. Enteral feeding by oro / nasogastric tube
7. Affiliated or beneficiary of the French social security system

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Exclusion Criteria

1. Patient who received opioids for more than 24 hours

2. Patient with refractory intracranial hypertension at the time of inclusion: intracranial hypertension requiring therapy other than analgo-sedation (thiopental, targeted temperature management, decompressive craniectomy)

3. Acute or chronic renal failure with creatinine clearance <60ml / min

4. Known or suspected acute gastrointestinal obstruction

5. Risk of digestive perforation:

   • history of peptic ulcer
   • Crohn's disease
   • Ogilvie syndrome
   • acute diverticulitis
   • infiltrating gastrointestinal tumor
   • recurrent or advanced ovarian cancer
   • peritoneal metastasis
   • recent abdominal trauma with risk of digestive perforation

6. Concomitant treatment with a strong or moderate inhibitory effect of CYP 3A4 (For example: clarithromycin, ketaconazole, itraconazole, telithromycin, ritonavir, indinavir, saquinavir) or with a strong inducing effect (carbamazepin, rifampicin, millepertuis)

7. Concomitant treatment with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor

8. Allergy to Naloxegol or one of its excipients

9. Recent history of myocardial infarction within the past 6 months, symptomatic congestive cardiovascular disease, QT ≥ 500 msec

10. Patient with a medical decision for rapid palliative care

11. Pregnancy and / or breastfeeding

12. Child Pugh C stage cirrhosis

13. Patient under legal protection or deprived of liberty

14. Patient with another life-threatening injury

15. History of clinically important alterations of the blood-brain barrier: primary brain tumors, metastasis or other inflammatory pathologies in the CNS, active multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease at an advanced stage.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Placebo	Placebo	Administration of the placebo according to the same procedures as the experimental arm.
Naloxegol	Naloxegol	Administration of Naloxegol 25 mg per day by nasogastric tube (NG) or orogastric tube (OG). The administration should be started within the first 24 hours after the patient is admitted to intensive care unit and continued for the duration of the administration of the morphine derivative and until 48 hours after its discontinuation. Management of constipation and gastroparesis according to the recommendations.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia	7 days
Proportion of bowel movement	6 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of patient-days who received the daily calorie goal (25 Kcal / kg / day)	10 days
Number of patients who required one or more administration of erythromycin and / or metoclopramide for vomiting occurring during enteral feeding	10 days
Number of patients who received one or more rectal laxative for constipation	10 days
Time in days of occurrence of the first bowel movement (in case of late constipation)	10 days
Number of patients with ventilator-acquired pneumonia after D7 of invasive mechanical ventilationventilation (after D7 of invasive mechanical ventilation)	10 days
Number of days without invasive mechanical ventilation	10 days
Duration of hospitalization in intensive care unit	10 days
Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended Score	6 month	The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) is a comprehensive assessment scale for functional outcome that classifies a patient's condition into one of five categories: Death, Vegetative State, Severe Handicap, Moderate Handicap or Good Recovery. The extended GOS scale (GOSE) allows a more detailed classification into eight categories, thanks to a subdivision into two levels (lower and higher) of the categories "severe handicap", "moderate handicap" and "good recovery"
Number of patients who experienced an episode of intracranial hypertension requiring targeted temperature management, barbiturates, or decompression craniectomy.	10 days

Trial Locations

Locations (11)

CHU Bordeaux; 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, France

CHU de Bordeaux - Réanimation chirurgicale; 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, France

CHU Brest; 🇫🇷 Brest, France

CHU Clermont-Ferrand; 🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand, France

CHU de Lille; 🇫🇷 Lille, France

CHU de Montpellier; 🇫🇷 Montpellier, France

CHU Nantes; 🇫🇷 Nantes, France

Hôpital La Pitié Salpétrière (APHP); 🇫🇷 Paris, France

CHU de Strasbourg; 🇫🇷 Strasbourg, France

CHU Tours - Hôpital BRETONNEAU; 🇫🇷 Tours, France

CHU Tours - Hôpital TROUSSEAU; 🇫🇷 Tours, France