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Clinical Trial: Corticosteroid Therapy of Septic Shock - Corticus
Corticosteroid Therapy of Septic Shock – Corticus
This study is currently recruiting patients.
Verified by Hadassah Medical Organization August 2005
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Purpose
| Condition | Intervention | Phase |
|---|---|---|
| Shock, Septic | Drug: hydrocortisone sodium succinate | Phase III |
MedlinePlus related topics: Sepsis
Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study
Official Title: Corticosteroid Therapy of Septic Shock – Corticus. A Multi-National, Prospective, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study
Secondary Outcomes: 28 day all cause mortality in the total group.; 28 day all cause mortality in responders.; One year mortality in nonresponders, total and responders.; ICU and hospital mortality.; Organ system failure reversal, especially shock.; Duration of ICU and total hospitalisation.
Expected Total Enrollment: 800
Study start: March 2002
The use of steroids in septic shock remains controversial. The purpose of this study is to determine whether hydrocortisone decreases 28-day mortality in patients with septic shock. The primary end point will be 28-day mortality in all the non-responders to ACTH (< or = 9 mcg/dl or 250 nmol/L post ACTH). Secondary endpoints will be 28 day all cause mortality in the total group and in responders, ICU and hospital mortality, one year mortality, organ system failure reversal especially shock, and duration of ICU and total hospitalisation.
In a double-blinded fashion (randomized on a 1:1 basis), patients receive 50 mg intravenously every 6 hours for 5 days. After 5 days, treatment will be tapered with 50 mg given intravenously every 12 hours for days 6-8, then 50 mg every 24 hours for days 9-11, and then stopped.
All concomitant treatments, including antibiotics, fluids, vasopressors and ancillary therapies will be given at the discretion of the primary care physician. Evidence-based guidelines for the management of severe sepsis and septic shock by the International Sepsis Forum (Intensive Care Med 2001;27:S124-S134) are encouraged to be followed.
All serious adverse events (SAE) which occur between days 0 and 28, which are unexpected and/or considered possibly or probably related to the study medication, must be documented and reported within 24 hours to the Safety and Efficacy Monitoring Committee. Non-serious adverse events will be listed on the case report form if they are unexpected and believed to be related to the study drug during days 0 to 14.
Specific adverse events which will be monitored closely because of their relationship to corticosteroids and shock are:
- Use of corticosteroids, i.e. gastrointestinal bleeding and superinfection; hyperglycemia, hypernatremia, muscular weakness, etc.
- Shock and use of vasopressors, i.e. stroke, acute myocardial infarction and peripheral ischemia.
In addition, substudies will include harmonization of cortisol by comparing cortisol levels measured in local laboratories and a central laboratory, immune and neuro-endocrine interactions, neuromuscular weakness and cytokines.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
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Clinical evidence of infection within the previous 72 hours (may be present longer than 72 hours) (a, b, c, or d – only 1 required)
- Presence of polymorphonuclear cells in a normally sterile body fluid (excluding blood);
- Culture or Gram stain of blood, sputum, urine or normally sterile body fluid positive for a pathogenic micro-organism;
- Focus of infection identified by visual inspection (e.g. ruptured bowel with the presence of free air or bowel contents in the abdomen found at the time of surgery, wound with purulent drainage);
- Other clinical evidence of infection – treated community acquired pneumonia, purpura fulminans, necrotising fascitis, etc.
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Evidence of a systemic response to infection as defined by the presence of two or more of the following signs within the previous 24 hours. These signs may be present longer than 72 hours.
- Fever (temperature >38.3°C) or hypothermia (rectal temperature < 35.6°C);
- Tachycardia (heart rate of >90 beat/min);
- Tachypnea (respiratory rate > 20 breaths/min, PaC02<32 mmHg) or patient requires invasive mechanical ventilation;
- Alteration of the WBC count >12,000 cells/mm3, <4,000 cells/mm3 or >10% immature neutrophils (bands).
- Evidence of shock defined by (A + B- both required within the previous 72 hours (may NOT be present longer than 72 hours).
A. A systolic blood pressure < 90 mmHg or a decrease in SBP of more than 50 mmHg from baseline in previous hypertensive patients (for at least one hour) despite adequate fluid replacement OR need for vasopressors for at least one hour (infusion of dopamine ≥ 5 mcg/kg/min or any dose of adrenaline, noradrenaline, phenylephrine or vasopressin) to maintain a SBP ≥ 90 mmHg;
B. Hypoperfusion or organ dysfunction which is not the result of underlying diseases or drugs, but is attributable to sepsis, including one of the following:
- Sustained oliguria (urine output < 0.5 ml/kg/hr for a minimum of 1 hour)
- Metabolic acidosis [pH of < 7.3, or a base deficit of > or = 5.0 mmol/L, or an increased lactic acid concentration (> 2 mmol/L)].
- Arterial hypoxemia (Pa02/FI02<280 in the absence of pneumonia)(Pa02/FI02<200 in the presence of pneumonia).
- Thrombocytopenia – platelet count ≤ 100,000 cells/mm3.
- Acute altered mental status (Glasgow Coma Scale < 14 or acute change from baseline).
4. Informed Consent
5. Cortisol level at baseline and 60 minutes after 0.25 mg cosyntropin
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Age less than 18.
- Underlying disease with a prognosis for survival of less than 3 months.
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation within 72 hours before study.
- Drug-induced immunosuppression, including chemotherapy or radiation therapy within 4 weeks before the study.
- Administration of chronic corticosteroids in the last 6 months or acute steroid therapy (any dose) within 4 weeks (including inhaled steroids). Topical steroids are not exclusions.
- HIV positivity.
- Presence of an advanced directive to withhold or withdraw life sustaining treatment (i.e. DNR).
- Advanced cancer with a life expectancy less than 3 months.
- Acute myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolus.
- Another experimental drug study within the last 30 days.
- Moribund patients likely to die within 24 hours.
- Patients in the ICU for more than 2 months at the time of the start of septic shock.
Location and Contact Information
Austria
Universitaetsklinik fuer Innere Medizin II, Wien, A 1090, Austria; Recruiting
Gottfried Heinz, MD, Principal Investigator
LKH Feldkirch, Feldkirch, A-6800, Austria; Recruiting
Peter Fae, MD, Principal Investigator
Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ges. mbH, Linz, A-4010, Austria; Recruiting
Wolfgang Sieber, MD, Principal Investigator
KH-BHS Linz, Linz, A-4010, Austria; Recruiting
Johann Reisinger, MD, Principal Investigator
Belgium
Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, UCL, Brussels, B-1200, Belgium; Recruiting
Pierre-Francois Laterre, MD, Principal Investigator
Xavier Wittebole, MD, Sub-Investigator
University Hospital Erasme, Brussels, B-1070, Belgium; Recruiting
Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, Principal Investigator
Daniel De Backer, MD, Sub-Investigator
Hopital St. Joseph, Arlon, B-6700, Belgium; Recruiting
Marc Simon, MD, Principal Investigator
CHU Charleroi, Charleroi, B-6000, Belgium; Recruiting
Patrick Biston, MD, Principal Investigator
France
Hopital Saint-Antoine, Paris, F-75571, France; Recruiting
Georges Offenstadt, MD, Principal Investigator
Jerome Lemant, MD, Sub-Investigator
Hopital Huriez, Lille, F-59037, France; Recruiting
Benoit Vallet, MD, Principal Investigator
Hopital de Caen, Caen, 14033, France; Recruiting
Cedric Daubin, MD, Principal Investigator
Hopital Caremeau, Nimes, 30029 cedex 9, France; Recruiting
Jean Y Lefrant, MD, Principal Investigator
France, Garches
Hopital Raymond Poincare, Paris, Garches, F-92380, France; Recruiting
Djillali Annane, MD, Principal Investigator
France, Oarus
Hopital Lariboisiere, Paris, Oarus, F-75010, France; Recruiting
Didier Payen, MD, Principal Investigator
Germany
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, D-81366, Germany; Recruiting
Josef Briegel, MD, Principal Investigator
Zentralklinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, D-86155, Germany; Recruiting
Helmut Forst, MD, Principal Investigator
Gertraud Neeser, MD, Sub-Investigator
Charité Campus Virchow -Klinikum, Berlin, D-13353, Germany; Recruiting
Didier Keh, MD, Principal Investigator
Charité- Campus Virchow- Klinikum, Berlin, D-13353, Germany; Recruiting
Jan Langrehr, MD, Principal Investigator
Klinikum Ernst von Bergman, Potsdam, D-14467, Germany; Recruiting
Dirk Pappert, MD, Principal Investigator
Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, D-10117, Germany; Recruiting
Claudia Spies, MD, Principal Investigator
K. Haubold, MD, Sub-Investigator
Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, D-13353, Germany; Recruiting
Michael Oppert, MD, Principal Investigator
Vivantes-Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Berlin, D - 10249, Germany; Recruiting
Siegfried Veit, MD, Principal Investigator
Vivantes-Klinikum Spandau, Berlin, D – 13585, Germany; Recruiting
Klaus-Juergen Slama, MD, Principal Investigator
Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, Berlin, D - 13589, Germany; Recruiting
Mathias Reyle-Hahn, MD, Principal Investigator
Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena, D – 07740, Germany; Recruiting
Konrad Reinhart, MD, Principal Investigator
Frank Brunkhorst, MD, Sub-Investigator
Klinikum Kemptern-Oberallegaeu, Kempten, D-87439, Germany; Recruiting
Mathias Haller, MD, Principal Investigator
Staedtisches Krankenhaus Muenchen-Harlaching, Muenchen, D- 81545, Germany; Recruiting
Maximilian Klimmer, MD, Principal Investigator
Vivantes-Klinikum Neukoelln, Berlin, D-12313, Germany; Recruiting
Herwig Gerlach, MD, Principal Investigator
Charité - Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, D-13353, Germany; Recruiting
Simone Rosseau, MD, Principal Investigator
Institute for Anaesthesia and Operative Intensive Care, Darmstadt, D-64283, Germany; Recruiting
Martin Welte, MD, Principal Investigator
University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, D- 01307, Germany; Recruiting
Christian Marx, MD, Principal Investigator
St. Joseph Krankenhaus, Berlin, D-12101, Germany; Recruiting
Martin Schmutzler, MD, Principal Investigator
Klinikum Landshut, Landshut, D-84034, Germany; Recruiting
U Helms, MD, Principal Investigator
Univesitaet Erlangen-Namberg, Nurenberg, D-90471, Germany; Recruiting
Martin Baumgaertel, MD, Principal Investigator
Klinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, D- 68167, Germany; Recruiting
Armin Kalenka, MD, Principal Investigator
Fritz Fiedler, MD, Sub-Investigator
Krankenhaus Hennigsdort, Hennigsdorf, D-16761, Germany; Recruiting
Andreas Lange, MD, Principal Investigator
Klinikum Grosshadern, LMU Munich, Munich, D-81377, Germany; Recruiting
Wolfgang Hartl, MD, Principal Investigator
Charité - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, D-12200, Germany; Recruiting
Joerg Weimann, MD, DEAA, Principal Investigator
Israel
Hadassah Medical Organisation, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel; Recruiting
Yoram Weiss, MD 972 50 787 4050 weiss@hadassah.org.il
Charles L Sprung, MD, Sub-Investigator
Yoram Weiss, MD, Principal Investigator
Haemek Hospital, Afula, 18101, Israel; Recruiting
Ami Lev, MD, Principal Investigator
Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, 64239, Israel; Recruiting
Patrick Sorkine, MD, Principal Investigator
Adi Nimrod, MD, Sub-Investigator
Beilinson Medical Centre, Petach Tikva, 491000, Israel; Recruiting
Pierre Singer, MD, Principal Investigator
Italy
Policlinico di Tor Vergata, Roma, 00133, Italy; Recruiting
Silvia Natoli, MD, Principal Investigator
Centro di Rianimazione Ospedale S.Eugenio, Roma, 00144, Italy; Recruiting
Franco Turani, MD, Principal Investigator
Netherlands
Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, Netherlands; Recruiting
Ben van der Hoven, MD, Principal Investigator
Renier de Graaf Hospital, Delft, 2600 GA, Netherlands; Recruiting
E F Salm, MD, Principal Investigator
Portugal
Hospital de St. Antonio do Capuchos, Lisboa, 1150, Portugal; Recruiting
Rui Moreno, MD, Principal Investigator
UCIP, Hospital de Desterro, Lisbon, 1150, Portugal; Recruiting
Eduardo Silva, MD, Principal Investigator
Hospital de Egas Moniz, Lisbon, 1349-019, Portugal; Recruiting
Pedro Abecasis, MD, Principal Investigator
United Kingdom
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom; Recruiting
Brian Cuthbertson, MD, Principal Investigator
Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, London, W1T 3AA, United Kingdom; Recruiting
Mervyn Singer, MD, Principal Investigator
The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom; Recruiting
Abhiram Mallick, MD, Principal Investigator
Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich, IP4 5PD, United Kingdom; Recruiting
Mark Garfield, MD, Principal Investigator
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom; Recruiting
Tom Woodcock, MD, Principal Investigator
Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster, LA1 4RP, United Kingdom; Recruiting
Charles Granger, MD, Principal Investigator
University of Manchester, Hope Hospital, Salford, M6 8HD, United Kingdom; Recruiting
Paul M Dark, MD, Principal Investigator
Southend Hospital, Essex, SSO ORY, United Kingdom; Recruiting
David Higgins, MD, Principal Investigator
Charles L Sprung, MD, Study Chair, Hadasah Medical Organization
Djillali Annane, MD, Study Director, Hopital Raymond Poincare
Josef Briegel, MD, Study Director, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet Muenchen
Didier Keh, MD, Study Director, Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum
Rui Moreno, MD, Study Director, Hospital de St. António dos Capuchos
Didier Pittet, MD, Study Director, Geneva University Hospitals
Mervyn Singer, MD, Study Director, University College, London
More Information
Publications
Annane D, Briegel J, Sprung CL. Corticosteroid insufficiency in acutely ill patients. N Engl J Med. 2003 May 22;348(21):2157-9. No abstract available.
Annane D, Briegel J, Keh D, Moreno R, Singer M, Sprung CL; Corticus Study Coordinators. Clinical equipoise remains for issues of adrenocorticotropic hormone administration, cortisol testing, and therapeutic use of hydrocortisone. Crit Care Med. 2003 Aug;31(8):2250-1; author reply 2252-3. No abstract available.
Last Updated: September 6, 2005
Record first received: September 6, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00147004
Health Authority: Austria: Federal Ministry for Health and Women; Belgium: Directorate general for the protection of Public health: Medicines; France: Afssaps - French Health Products Safety Agency; Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medicinal Devices; Israel: Israeli Health Ministry Pharmaceutical Administration; Italy: National Monitoring Centre for Clinical Trials - Ministry of Health; Netherlands: The Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO); Portugal: National Pharmacy and Medicines Institute; Spain: Spanish Agency of Medicines; United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
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