Hemodynamics and Extravascular Lung Water in Acute Lung Injury (HEAL)
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to test a treatment that tries to reduce the amount of fluid in the lungs of subjects with acute lung injury to see if this is helpful.
| Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Acute Lung Injury |
Drug: Diuresis (furosemide) part I Other: Fluid Bolus (crystalloid or albumin) Drug: Vasopressors (Norepinephrine, Vasopressin, Phenylephrine, Epinephrine) Drug: Dobutamine Other: Concentrate all drips and nutrition Drug: Diuresis (furosemide) part II Procedure: Dialysis |
Phase 2 |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Subject) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
| Official Title: | Hemodynamics and Extravascular Lung Water in Acute Lung Injury: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Multicentered Trial of Goal Directed Treatment of EVLW Versus Standard Management for the Treatment of Acute Lung Injury |
- The primary efficacy variable will be the total reduction in measured lung water [ Time Frame: The first seven days of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- The number of ventilator-free days (VFDs [ Time Frame: number of days after initiating unassisted breathing to day 28 after randomization, assuming a patient survives for at least 2 consecutive days after initiating unassisted breathing and remains free of assisted breathing. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- The physiologic severity of clinical lung injury as measured by the 4-point acute lung injury scoring system. [ Time Frame: Day 1-28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number of ICU-free days [ Time Frame: From randomization to day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number of Organ Failure Free Days [ Time Frame: Randomization to day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Percentage of patients alive at day 28 in patients with ALI [ Time Frame: Day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Percentage of patients discharged alive from hospital within 60 days [ Time Frame: Day 60 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mortality and VFDs in patients with pre- randomization PaO2/FiO2 less than or equal to 200 [ Time Frame: Day 60 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mortality prior to hospital discharge to day 60 in patients who receive norepinephrine, dobutamine, or vasopressin at any point during the treatment period [ Time Frame: Day 60 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- number of VFDs to day 28 in patients who receive the following intravenous vasoactive agonists (norepinephrine, dobutamine, and vasopressin) at any point during the treatment period [ Time Frame: Day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mortality prior to hospital discharge to day 60 in patients with shock (defined in 2.3.6 in the HEAL protocol) at the time of randomization [ Time Frame: Day 60 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- number of VFDs to day 28 in patients with shock (defined in 2.3.6 in the HEAL protocol) at the time of randomization [ Time Frame: Day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mortality prior to hospital discharge to day 60 in patients with severe sepsis (defined in 2.3.8 in the HEAL protocol) at the time of randomization. [ Time Frame: Day 60 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- number of ventilator-free days to day 28 in patients with severe sepsis (defined in 2.3.8) at the time of randomization. [ Time Frame: Day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Changes in quasistatic total respiratory system compliance [ Time Frame: Randomization to day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Need for vasoactive medication - dose, duration and total amounts of all vasoactive medications. [ Time Frame: Randomization to day 28 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Changes in the plasma levels of interleukin-1b, 6 and 8, and TNF-α. [ Time Frame: 60 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Changes in the airspace (bronchoalveolar lavage: BAL) levels of interleukin-1b, 6 and 8, and TNF-α. Changes in BAL cell count and differential. [ Time Frame: 60 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
| Estimated Enrollment: | 72 |
| Study Start Date: | February 2008 |
| Study Completion Date: | January 2011 |
| Primary Completion Date: | January 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
| Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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Active Comparator: Modified FACTT (control)
The investigators control arm consists of a simplified algorithm for conservative management of fluids in patients with ALI, as to be published by the ARDSnet group, based on the protocol used in the FACTT trial. The protocol calls for strict adherence to ARDSnet ventilation, our weaning protocol and use of only select vasoactive, beta-adrenergic drugs as it is felt that variation in these treatments could seriously confound our results. Albuterol administration will not be permitted in the either arm except for life threatening bronchospasm not responsive to ipratropium. Ipratropium may be administered at the treating physician's discretion for bronchospasm. PiCCO's will be placed in each control patient and data recorded twice daily. The treating physician's will be blinded to this data.
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Drug: Diuresis (furosemide) part I
Goal: Overall I/O net negative 50ml/hour Initiation:
Furosemide Bolus:
15 ml/kg PBW crystalloid (round to nearest 250 ml) or 25 grams albumin as rapidly as possible. Used for patients with a measured CVP<8 or measured PaOP <12mmHg in addition to concurrent urine output of <0.5 ml/kg/hr
Drug: Vasopressors (Norepinephrine, Vasopressin, Phenylephrine, Epinephrine)
(may use any alone or in combination)
Weaning: When MAP ≥ 60 mm/Hg on stable dose of vasopressor begin reduction of vasopressor by greater than or equal to 25% stabilizing dose at intervals ≤ 4 hours to maintain MAP ≥ 60 mm/Hg.
Withhold furosemide if:
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Experimental: EVLW
When EVLW exceeds 9 ml/kg PBW the algorithmic treatment is begun and continued until EVLW ≤9 ml/kg PBW or extubation whichever comes first as tolerated (see figure 6). Furosemide and volume contraction are initiated when sufficient volumetric preload (GEDI) is available to enact volume contraction as a means to decrease measured EVLW without causing concomitant hypoperfusion. Fluid administration is also guided by changes in EVLW. An increase in EVLW > 2ml/kg PBW as a result of fluid administration curtails any further fluid administration until the next scheduled measurement. Our ultimate treatment goal is to maximally lower EVLW towards the normal range - thus improving lung mechanics and gas exchange - without causing concomitant hemodynamic compromise and end-organ injury. By doing so we feel this algorithmic, goal directed, therapeutic approach should improve outcome. |
Drug: Diuresis (furosemide) part I
Goal: Overall I/O net negative 50ml/hour Initiation:
Furosemide Bolus:
10 ml/kg PBW crystalloid (round to nearest 70ml) or 25 grams albumin as rapidly as possible. Perform thermodilution immediately before and after and 60 minutes after each bolus. If EVLW increases > 2ml/kg PBW within 60 minutes after a bolus do not give any further boluses until next regularly scheduled measurement. This therapy is available for patients with a map < 60 or who are on vasopressors that also have a measured GEDI less than goal (may use alone or in combination)
Weaning: When MAP ≥ 60 mm/Hg on stable dose of vasopressor begin reduction of vasopressor by greater than or equal to 25% stabilizing dose at intervals ≤ 4 hours to maintain MAP ≥ 60 mm/Hg. In the experimental arm vasopressors are a treatment option in patients with a Mean Arterial Pressure of < 60
Used in patients with a measured cardiac index < 2.5 Concentrate all drips and nutrition in order to minimize fluid volume as much as possible. Intravenous fluid to be run at keep vein open rate. EVLW arm: Patients with a MAP > 60 and off vasopressors for >12 hours, as well as patients with a measured cardiac index >2.5 that also have a measured GEDI > goal. Withhold furosemide if:
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Detailed Description:
The objective of this study is to conduct a randomized, controlled trial of a goal directed therapy designed to improve outcome in patients with acute lung injury (ALI). The investigators are comparing two algorithmic approaches in managing patients with ALI - one, the control arm, attempts to reduce the amount of fluid in the lung in patients with ALI by diuresis based on central venous pressure and urine output, the other the treatment arm attempting to reduce lung water by directing therapy to measured lung water and using more sensitive indicators of preload status than CVP. The protocol uses measured extravascular lung water (EVLW) to direct diuresis and appropriate fluid restriction in a goal directed fashion in order to lower EVLW towards the normal range.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Acute onset of:
- PaO2/FiO2 less than or equal to 300.
- Bilateral infiltrates consistent with pulmonary edema on the frontal chest radiograph.
- Requirement for positive pressure ventilation through an endotracheal tube or tracheostomy.
- No clinical evidence of left atrial hypertension that would explain the pulmonary infiltrates. If measured, pulmonary arterial wedge pressure less than or equal to 18 mmHg.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age younger than 18 years old.
- Greater than 24 hours since all inclusion criteria first met.
- Neuromuscular disease that impairs ability to ventilate without assistance, such as C5 or higher spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenia gravis, or kyphoscoliosis (see Appendix I.A).
- Pregnancy (negative pregnancy test required for women of child-bearing potential).
- Severe chronic respiratory disease (see Appendix I.C).
- Severe Chronic Liver Disease (Child-Pugh 11 - 15, see Appendix I.E)
- Weight > 160 kg.
- Burns greater than 70% total body surface area.
- Malignancy or other irreversible disease or conditions for which 6-month mortality is estimated to be greater than 50 % (see Appendix I.A).
- Known cardiac or vascular aneurysm.
- Contraindications to femoral arterial puncture - platelets < 30, bilateral femoral arterial grafts, INR > 3.0.
- Not committed to full support.
- Participation in other experimental medication trial within 30 days.
- Allergy to intravenous lasix or any components of its carrier.
- History of severe CHF - NYHA class ≥ III, previously documented EF < 30%.
- Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage.
- Presence of reactive airway disease (active will be defined based on recent frequency and amounts of MDI's use and steroids to control the disease).
Contacts and Locations| United States, Oregon | |
| Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside | |
| Clackamas, Oregon, United States, 97015 | |
| Oregon Health and Science University | |
| Portland, Oregon, United States, 97219 | |
| Legacy Good Samaritan | |
| Portland, Oregon, United States, 97210 | |
| Principal Investigator: | Charles Phillips, M.D. | Oregon Health and Science University |
More Information
Publications:
| Responsible Party: | Charles Phillips, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00624650 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | IRB00003491, IRB #e2978 |
| Study First Received: | February 19, 2008 |
| Last Updated: | May 27, 2011 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by Oregon Health and Science University:
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Acute Lung Injury Extravascular Lung Water Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Acute Lung Injury Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult Lung Injury Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiration Disorders Thoracic Injuries Wounds and Injuries Epinephrine Dobutamine Phenylephrine Norepinephrine Oxymetazoline Epinephryl borate Vasopressins |
Arginine Vasopressin Vasoconstrictor Agents Furosemide Adrenergic beta-Agonists Adrenergic Agonists Adrenergic Agents Neurotransmitter Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Pharmacologic Actions Physiological Effects of Drugs Bronchodilator Agents Autonomic Agents Peripheral Nervous System Agents Anti-Asthmatic Agents Respiratory System Agents |
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