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NCT number NCT02982122
Other study ID # COGITATE
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date March 1, 2018
Est. completion date February 27, 2020

Study information

Verified date September 2020
Source Maastricht University Medical Center
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Despite improvements in management, mortality in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains 25% and only 40% of patients survive without major handicap. Medical/surgical interventions aim to maintain adequate brain perfusion, which is critically dependent on cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP); calculated as the difference between mean arterial pressure (MAP) and intracranial pressure (ICP). Current guidelines aim for a CPP above 50 mmHg, based on population means. However, this 'one size fits all' approach is flawed, because the relation between CPP and brain perfusion varies between individuals. Further, this approach takes no account of autoregulation, a key protective mechanism that maintains cerebral perfusion despite CPP fluctuations.

Autoregulation is variably preserved following TBI, and there are large between patient variances in the 'optimal' CPP (CPPopt) at which autoregulation operates best. Individual CPPopt can be retrieved automatically by plotting autoregulation data against the CPP over a certain time window. The investigators have shown that maintenance of CPP close to CPPopt is associated with improved outcomes. These data pose the hypothesis that optimisation of management in individuals may be achieved by using the zone of optimal autoregulation as a basis for defining individualised CPP targets.

The investigators propose, together with collaborators in the CPPopt study group (Maastricht, Cambridge, Leuven and Aachen) to set up a pilot (multicenter) feasibility study to develop a protocol for a definitive outcome randomized controlled trial (RCT). This study aims to develop protocols for CPPopt guided critical care, and show that they maintain patients closer to their optimum perfusion levels than standard protocols which keep above a population CPP threshold of 60 mmHg.

Hence, the main objective is to offer clinicians monitoring and therapy algorithms that achieve individualized optimal CPPopt targets and potentially improve TBI outcome.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 60
Est. completion date February 27, 2020
Est. primary completion date February 27, 2020
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Any adult severe TBI patient requiring multimodality monitoring and ICP-directed therapy for at least 24 hrs on the assessment of the recruiting team.

- Start randomization within 24 hrs after ICU admission.

- Deferred informed consent or deferred proxy assent from relatives/legal representative (consultee).

- Exception for enrolling a patient past the 24 hour window: A patient who is admitted to the hospital and later experiences neuro-worsening that is not due to a systemic insult, (e.g. myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, pulmonary embolus, systemic hemorrhage) but due to a presumptive intracranial cause, and subsequently requires an ICP monitor, may be screened for enrolment. Consent, randomization, and monitor placement must be done within 48 hours from injury in order for the patient to qualify.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients < 18 years old.

- Known pregnancy.

- Moribund at presentation (e.g. bilaterally absent pupillary responses)

- Patients with primary decompressive craniectomy.

- Patients already enrolled in > 1 other research studies.

Study Design


Intervention

Other:
For both groups, CPP targets will be achieved first by ICP control if this is raised and then by ABP support by titration (up or down) of vasopressors and fluids according to local protocols.
For both groups, CPP targets will be achieved first by ICP control if this is raised and then by ABP support by titration (up or down) of vasopressors and fluids according to local protocols.

Locations

Country Name City State
Belgium Academic Hospital Leuven Leuven
United Kingdom The Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Maastricht University Medical Center European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium,  United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (4)

Aries MJ, Czosnyka M, Budohoski KP, Steiner LA, Lavinio A, Kolias AG, Hutchinson PJ, Brady KM, Menon DK, Pickard JD, Smielewski P. Continuous determination of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure in traumatic brain injury. Crit Care Med. 2012 Aug;40(8):245 — View Citation

Aries MJ, Wesselink R, Elting JW, Donnelly J, Czosnyka M, Ercole A, Maurits NM, Smielewski P. Enhanced Visualization of Optimal Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Over Time to Support Clinical Decision Making. Crit Care Med. 2016 Oct;44(10):e996-9. doi: 10.1097/ — View Citation

Donnelly J, Aries MJ, Czosnyka M. Further understanding of cerebral autoregulation at the bedside: possible implications for future therapy. Expert Rev Neurother. 2015 Feb;15(2):169-85. doi: 10.1586/14737175.2015.996552. Review. — View Citation

Zuercher P, Groen JL, Aries MJ, Steyerberg EW, Maas AI, Ercole A, Menon DK. Reliability and Validity of the Therapy Intensity Level Scale: Analysis of Clinimetric Properties of a Novel Approach to Assess Management of Intracranial Pressure in Traumatic Br — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Percentage of monitoring time with measured CPP within 5 mmHg of calculated CPPopt Main feasible endpoint: In pilot studies, we showed that, on average, patients spent a mean (+SD) of 30% ( 8%) of their monitored time with measured CPP within 5 mmHg of CPPopt. The study will be powered to target an increase in this metric to 50% of monitored time. First 5 days during intensive care unit admission
Secondary Treatment Intensity Level (TIL) score Main safety secondary endpoint: A change in daily TIL score of > 3 is representative of a clinical significant escalation of TBI treatment from basic ICP management to second tier therapies known to carry risk of harm and therefore is expected to represent a clinically significant potentially harmful effect of CPPopt guided management. First 5 days during intensive care unit admission
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