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Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the present study is to compare the adjunct treatment of metabolic or mixed severe acidosis in the critically ill using Sodium Bicarbonate as a buffer to increase the plasma pH vs no buffering therapy.

The study is a randomized multiple center clinical trial with the outcome as a primary endpoint.


Clinical Trial Description

- Design: randomized multiple center clinical trial, open label

- Arms: intravenous 4.2% Sodium Bicarbonate vs no additional treatment

- Inclusion: age of 18 yo or above, critically ill patient with a SOFA score of 4 or above, lactatemia of 2mmol/l or above, with pH of 7.20 or below and PaCO2 of 45mmHg or below and bicarbonatemia of 20mmol/l or below

- Exclusion: single respiratory disorder (PaCO2 > 50 mmHg, Bicarbonatemia equal or higher than (PaCO2-40)/10 + 24 ; acute diarrhea, ileostomy or biliary drainage ; stage IV kidney failure or chronic dialysis ; tubular acidosis, ketoacidosis, high anion gap acids poisoning (PEG, aspirin, methanol) ; PaCO2 equal to 45mmHg or above and spontaneous breathing, pregnancy, protected patients, moribund patient (life expectancy of 48h or below)

- Randomization: website randomization with stratification on age, presence of sepsis at inclusion, renal failure

- Intervention: experimental arm: intravenous 4.2% Sodium Bicarbonate 125 to 250ml in 30min up to 1000ml/24h. The target is a plasma pH of 7.30 or above.

- An interim statistical analysis is planned when 200 patients will be included ;


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NCT number NCT02476253
Study type Interventional
Source University Hospital, Montpellier
Contact Boris JUNG, MD
Phone 0467337271
Email b-jung@chu-montpellier.fr
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 3
Start date May 5, 2015
Completion date October 13, 2017

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