Stop Antibiotics on Procalcitonin Guidance Study
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Sepsis
- Sponsor
- Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
- Enrollment
- 1575
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Mortality
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 10 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a randomized controlled trial comparing standard-of-care therapy of infections in critically ill patients with a procalcitonin-guided approach evaluating efficacy (antibiotics consumption) and safety (mortality).
Detailed Description
Antibiotics are prescribed widely in intensive care units and are linked with high costs and the occurence of antimicrobial (multi)resistance. The optimal duration of antibiotic treatment is poorly known and often based on consensus guidelines. SAPS is a multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled open-label trial evaluating the equivalence/efficacy and safety of procalcitonin-guided treatment of infections in ICU patients versus a standard-of-care approach. All patients that are admitted to the ICU and for whom systemic antibiotics are prescribed for presumed or proven bacterial infections are eligible for this trial. Patients will be randomized and stratified according to clinical diagnosis of severe sepsis and septic shock. Any patient over the age of 18, admitted to the ICU and receiving antibiotics for an assumed infection can be enrolled into this trial. Informed consent has to be obtained in writing from the patient of his/her relatives prior to inclusion. In the intervention group daily procalcitonin levels be performed and will generate a non-binding stopping advice when predefined stopping-rules have been reached. The ultimate decision to stop antibiotics will be at the discretion of the physician in both groups.
Investigators
Evelien de Jong
drs
Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Age over 18 years old
- •receiving antibiotics for no more than 24 hours for an assumed or proven infection
- •Informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •Failure to obtain written consent to participate
- •Patients receiving prolonged antibiotic therapies (\> 3 weeks, e.g. endocarditis, cerebral/hepatic abscess)
- •Patients with severe infections due to viruses or parasites (e.g. Dengue, Toxoplasma gondii, Plasmodium spp.)
- •Patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- •Patients entering the ICU for post-operative observation and/or on antibiotic prophylaxis with an estimated length of stay less then 24 hrs.
- •Patients suffering from cystic fibrosis
- •Severely immunocompromised patients such as patients with HIV and with a CD4 count of less than 200 cells/mm, neutropenic patients (\<500 neutrophils per mL) or patients with solid organ transplantation
- •Moribund patients
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Mortality
Time Frame: 1 year
Consumption of antibiotics expressed as the Defined Daily Dosage and duration of antibiotic therapy expressed in days of therapy.
Time Frame: Between day 1 and D28
Secondary Outcomes
- Acquisition costs of procalcitonin(Between D1-D28)
- Acquisition costs of antibiotics(Between D1-D28)
- Length of ICU stay(Between D1 and D28)