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Promising result of intra-arrest cooling on neurological intact survival in cardiac arrest patients has recently been published in the PRINCE-study in Circulation 2010.

The main purpose of this study is to determine whether prehospital intra-nasal cooling initiated during resuscitation, in addition to systemic cooling at hospital, increases neurological intact survival measured as cerebral performance category score (CPC-score)at 90 days in witnessed cardiac arrests outside hospital.


Clinical Trial Description

Background:

The RhinoChill Device is a non-invasive, portable cooling device through which rapid cooling is achieved via the trans-nasal delivery of an evaporative coolant into the nasopharynx. Animal studies suggest a life-saving benefit for intra-arrest cooling.

Results from a European multicenter randomized trial (PRINCE - Pre Rosc Intra Nasal Cooling Effectiveness), published in Circulation in August 2010, demonstrate that intra-arrest trans-nasal evaporative cooling can be used safely and effectively in prehospital cardiac arrest without interfering with advanced cardiac life support protocols.

The outcome results among patients admitted to hospital showed a trend towards improved survival to hospital discharge in the treatment group (43.8% versus 31.0, p=0.26). The difference in neurologically intact survival was 34.4% vs 21.4%). In the subgroup of patients where cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was started by Emergency Medical Services personnel within 10 minutes (78 % of total number of patients) the difference in total survival between the groups was (56.5 versus 29.4, p=0.03). Neurologically intact survival for the corresponding subgroup was 43.5% vs 17.6%. In the treatment group, time to tympanic temperature of 34º was reached 3 hours faster (102 min versus 291 min, p=0.03) and time to core temperature 2 hours faster (155 min versus 284 min, p=0.13).

This study is powered to detect clinically significant changes in neurologically intact survival at 90 days after cardiac arrest. An interim analysis for safety and futility will be performed by an external committee after the first 200 patients have provided endpoint data. Conditional power for meeting the primary endpoint will if needed, be computed at that time, and if the interim results do not correspond to the primary endpoint, termination of the study for futility will be considered. Early stopping for efficacy reasons will only be considered if major outcome differences are seen between the groups according to the Haybittle rule with a p-value ≤0,001.

Intention to treat and per protocol analyses will be performed for all randomized patients. No imputed values will be used for patients for whom data is not available.

Stratified analyses will be performed for patients whose first recorded rhythm is VF/VT versus those in whom the first recorded rhythm is PEA or asystole. Stratification analyses will be performed for subjects where CPR was initiated within 10 minutes by a first responder. Stratified analyses will also be performed for subjects in the treatment group where cooling was started within 15 minutes.

Besides the specific endpoints listed below, substudies will be made to assess the following specific endpoints:

- Prehospital trans-nasal cooling significantly improve the systolic left ventricular function measured as LVEF (performed be Echo).

- Prehospital trans-nasal cooling significantly reduce the infarction size and area at risk and increase the systolic left ventricular function measured as LVEF (ECHO and MRI)in patients with AMI as cause of the cardiac arrest.

- Prehospital trans-nasal cooling significantly reduce in-hospital MACE (Major Adverse Cardiac Events) (i.e. death, reinfarction, stroke, cardiogenic shock, pulmonary oedema, recurrent cardiac arrest and need for.IABP.during hospital stay)

- Prehospital trans-nasal cooling significantly reduces the proportion of patients with cardiogenic shock

- Prehospital trans-nasal cooling significantly reduce days in ventilator, days at ICU and length of stay at hospital among survivors.

- To perform a metaanalysis in regards to ROSC, early and late survival as a pooled analysis of PRINCE data and PRINCESS 200 patientdata.

- Prehospital trans-nasal cooling significantly reduces peak-value of biochemical markers in patients treated with RhinoChill with 25% (measured at 12, 24, 36, 48 and 72 hours).

- To assess the development of end tidal CO2 during resuscitation in patients cooled prehospital wit trans nasal cooling ;


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NCT number NCT01400373
Study type Interventional
Source Karolinska Institutet
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 2
Start date July 6, 2010
Completion date April 30, 2018

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