Platform of Randomized Adaptive Clinical Trials in Critical Illness
Sponsor: University Health Network, Toronto • ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT05440851
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PRACTICAL is a randomized multifactorial adaptive platform trial for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF). This platform trial will evaluate novel interventions for patients with AHRF across a range of severity states (i.e., not intubated, intubated with lower or higher respiratory system elastance, requiring extracorporeal life support) and across a range of investigational phases (i.e., preliminary mechanistic trials, full-scale clinical trials). AHRF is a common and life-threatening clinical syndrome affecting millions globally every year. Patients with AHRF are at high risk of death and long-term morbidity. Patients who require invasive mechanical ventilation are at risk of ventilator-induced lung injury and ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction. New treatments and treatment strategies are needed to improve outcomes for these very ill patients. Utilizing advances in Bayesian adaptive trial design, the platform will facilitate efficient yet rigorous testing of new treatments for AHRF, with a particular focus on mechanical ventilation strategies and extracorporeal life support techniques as well as pharmacological agents and new medical devices. The platform is designed to enable evaluation of novel interventions at a variety of stages of investigation, including pilot and feasibility trials, trials focused on mechanistic surrogate endpoints for preliminary clinical evaluation, and full-scale clinical trials assessing the impact of interventions on patient-centered outcomes. A domain is defined as a set of interventions that are intended to act on specific mechanisms of injury using different variations of a common therapeutic strategy. A domain may also be a non-interventional study that addresses observational research questions by collecting specific data or outcomes that are not collected as part of other domains. Domains are intended to function independently of each other, allowing independent evaluation of multiple therapies and mechanistic pathways within the same patient. Once feasibility is established, Bayesian adaptive statistical modelling will be used to evaluate treatment efficacy at regular interim adaptive analyses of the pre-specified outcomes for each intervention in each domain. These adaptive analyses will compute the posterior probabilities of superiority, futility, inferiority, or equivalence for pre-specified comparisons within domains. Each of these potential conclusions will be pre-defined prior to commencing the intervention trial. Decisions about trial results (e.g., concluding superiority or equivalence) will be based on pre-specified threshold values for posterior probability. The primary outcome of interest, the definitions for superiority, futility, etc. (i.e., the magnitude of treatment effect) and the threshold values of posterior probability required to reach conclusions for superiority, futility etc., will vary from intervention to intervention depending on the phase of investigation and the nature of the intervention being evaluated. All of these parameters will be pre-specified as part of the statistical design for each intervention trial. In general, domains will be designed to evaluate treatment effect within four discrete clinical states: non-intubated patients, intubated patients with low respiratory system elastance (\<2.5 cm H2O/(mL/kg)), intubated patients with high respiratory system elastance (≥2.5 cm H2O/(mL/kg)), and patients requiring extracorporeal life support. Where appropriate, the model will specify dynamic borrowing between states to maximize statistical information available for trial conclusions. In this perpetual trial design, different interventions may be added or dropped over time. Where possible, the platform will be embedded within existing data collection repositories to enable greater efficiency in outcome ascertainment. Standardized systems for acquiring both physiological and biological measurements are embedded in the platform, to be acquired at sites with appropriate training, expertise, and facilities to collect those measurements.
Interventions
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Ultra-Protective Ventilation Facilitated by Extracorporeal Support
(Other)
Patients randomized to this intervention group will receive VV-ECMO with the ventilator set to minimize driving pressure and respiratory rate for ultra-protective ventilation.
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Lung-Protective Ventilation (LPV)
(Other)
Patients randomized to LPV will receive standard of care lung-protective ventilation with conventional limits on tidal volume and plateau airway pressure.
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Driving Pressure-Limited Ventilation (DPL)
(Other)
Patients randomized to DPL will receive mechanical ventilation set to maintain a safe limit on driving pressure and plateau airway pressure, without less for the tidal volume.
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Lung- and Diaphragm-Protective Ventilation and Sedation (LDPVS)
(Other)
Patients randomized to LDPVS will have ventilation and sedation adjusted to maintain lung-distending pressure and respiratory effort in a safe target range.
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Early Cohort corticosteroid dose
(Drug)
Patients randomized to receive corticosteroids will receive dexamethasone 20mg daily for 5 days and then 10mg for an additional 5 days, for a total of 10 days from the time of randomization (or until ICU discharge or death, whichever comes first); after 10 days dexamethasone will be stopped without a taper.
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Extended Cohort corticosteroid dose
(Drug)
Patients randomized to receive extended corticosteroids will receive dexamethasone 10mg for an additional 10 days. At the end of the additional 10 days (day 20 of corticosteroids), the dexamethasone dose will be halved to 5mg for another 5 days (to reduce the risk of adrenal insufficiency) and then stopped (a total of 25 days or until ICU discharge or death, whichever comes first).
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Usual care without routine corticosteroids
(Drug)
Patients randomized to this arm will be managed according to usual care. They will receive corticosteroids only if prescribed by the clinician.
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Usual care without extending corticosteroids
(Drug)
Corticosteroids will stop after 10 days. Other management will be according to usual care. Patients will receive corticosteroids only if prescribed by the clinician.
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Usual care with fludrocortisone
(Drug)
Best practice standard of care prescribed by treating team + fludrocortisone 50μg enterally daily for 7 days.
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Usual care without fludrocortisone
(Drug)
Best practice standard of care prescribed by treating team without fludrocortisone. After randomization, if a clinical indication develops for fludrocortisone as part of standard of care, administration of fludrocortisone is not prohibited. Any fludrocortisone administered to participants in the control arm will be documented.
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Drug 4 mL:
(Drug)
4 mL of nebulized 0.9% saline minutes every 6 hours over 30 minutes every 6 hours.
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Drug 40 mg:
(Drug)
40 mg of nebulized furosemide in 4 mL of saline nebulized over 30 minutes every 6 hours
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PEEP-20
(Other)
fixed high positive end-expiratory pressure at 20 cmH2O
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PEEP-AOP
(Other)
positive end-expiratory pressure set according to airway opening pressure
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PEEP-10
(Other)
fixed lower positive end-expiratory pressure at 10 cmH2O
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VV ECMO-facilitated strategy of earlier awakening, extubation and rehabilitation
(Other)
Patients randomized to this intervention group will receive VV-ECMO where the sedation will be reduced and the ventilator will will be adjusted to facilitate spontaneous breathing.
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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT)
(Other)
Patients randomized to EIT will have PEEP titration compared via the Overdistension Collapse Intercept (ODCL) versus that obtained using a standard high PEEP table.
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no treatment / intervention arm is involved
(Other)
This trial is a prospective, multicenter, observational study (no treatment arm is involved).
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Usual care
(Other)
Patients will be treated according to usual care.
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Early Routine IMT
(Other)
* Training commences once patients meet readiness to wean criteria * 3 sets of 10 breaths, delivered twice daily using a device placed at the airway opening to apply an external resistive pressure load, until hospital discharge, death, or day 45 after randomization, whichever occurs first. * Device load will initially be set to 30% of the MIP. * Device load will be titrated upward (in increments of 5-10% of MIP, to a maximum of 60% of MIP) as needed to achieve a modified Borg dyspnea score of 7/10 or visible accessory muscle use.
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no treatment / intervention arm is involved.
(Other)
This trial is a prospective, multicenter, observational study (no treatment arm is involved).
Eligibility criteria
Conditions
Locations
- University of Arizona — Tucson, Arizona, United States
- University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) — Los Angeles, California, United States
- University of San Diego (UCSD) — San Diego, California, United States
- University of California San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
- University of Colorado Hospital — Aurora, Colorado, United States
- University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- University of Maryland Medical System — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- The Johns Hopkins Medicine — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- University of Michigan Health — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Washington University — St Louis, Missouri, United States
- University of Nebraska Medical Center — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Mount Sinai New York City — New York, New York, United States
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center — New York, New York, United States
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) — Portland, Oregon, United States
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Rhode Island Hospital — Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) — Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Vanderbilt university medical center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Texas Tech — El Paso, Texas, United States
- University of Utah Health — Farmington, Utah, United States
- Sentara Health — Norfolk, Virginia, United States
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital — Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
- Nepean Hospital — Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia
- Wollongong Hospital — Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
- The Prince Charles Hospital — Chermside, Queensland, Australia
- Flinders Medical Centre — Bedford Park, Southern Adelaide, Australia
- St Vincent Hospital, Sydney — Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
- Bendigo Health Victoria — Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
- Peninsula University Hospital — Frankston, Victoria, Australia
- University Hospital Geelong — Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- The Austin Hospital — Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Westmead Hospital — Westmead, Australia
- University of Calgary — Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- University of Alberta/Edmonton University Hospital — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Nanaimo Regional General Hospital — Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
- Surrey Memorial Hospital — Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
- St. Paul's Hospital — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Royal Jubilee Hospital — Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Vancouver Island Health - Royal Jubilee Hospital & Nanaimo Hospital — Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- St. Boniface Hospital — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Health Sciences Centre - Winnipeg — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Grace Hospital — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Nova Scotia Health Authority — Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- William Osler Health System — Brampton, Ontario, Canada
- Brantford General Hospital — Brantford, Ontario, Canada
- Hamilton Health Sciences Centre - General — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- St. Joseph's Hamilton — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Hamilton Health Sciences Centre - Juravinski — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Kingston Health Sciences Centre — Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- London Health Sciences Centre - University Hospital — London, Ontario, Canada
- London Health Sciences Centre - Victoria Hospital — London, Ontario, Canada
- Oak Valley Health — Markham, Ontario, Canada
- North York General Hospital — North York, Ontario, Canada
- Halton Healthcare — Oakville, Ontario, Canada
- Lakeridge Hospital — Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
- The Ottawa Hospital — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Ottawa Heart Research Institute — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Mackenzie Health — Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
- Niagara Health Systems — Saint Catherines, Ontario, Canada
- Scarborough Health Network — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Unity Health Toronto — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Sinai Health, Mount Sinai Hospital — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- University Health Network — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital — Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
- Windsor Regional Health — Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Cité de la Santé Hospital — Laval, Quebec, Canada
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) — Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- MUHC - McGill University Health Centre (Glen Site) — Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Sacre Coeur du Montreal — Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Centre Hospitalier Universite de Sherbrooke — Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
- Trois Riviere (CHAUR) — Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
- University of Saskatchewan — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Clínica Universidad de La Sabana — Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia
- Queen Mary Hospital — Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Ferrara — Cona, Ferrara, Italy
- Policlinico Riuniti Foggia — Foggia, FG, Italy
- Ospedale Maggiore, Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda, Milano — Milan, Michigan, Italy
- ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda — Milan, Michigan, Italy
- Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale Ovest Milanese — Legnano, MI, Italy
- Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Paolo Giaccone — Palermo, PA, Italy
- Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli — Roma, RM, Italy
- Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria - Sassari — Sassari, SS, Italy
- Ospedale Santa Chiara di Trento — Trento, TN, Italy
- Auckland City Hospital — Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
- Waikato Hospital — Hamilton, New Zealand, New Zealand
- Middlemore Hospital — Auckland, New Zealand
- Taranaki Base Hospital — New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Rotorua Hospital — Rotorua, New Zealand
- King Abdulaziz Medical City- Riyadh — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- National University of Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
- Hospital del Mar — Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain
- Vall d'Hebron University Hospital — Horta-Guinardó, Barcelona, Spain
- Bellvitge University Hospital — L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Parc Taulí University Hospital — Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Josep Trueta (Girona) — Girona, Spain
- Hospital U Virgen de la Candelaria — Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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