Clinical trial NCT00528580: Statins for the Early Treatment of Sepsis
Official title: Statins for the Early Treatment of Sepsis
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Sepsis
Keywords: Sepsis
Statin
Infection
Immunomodulatory
Lead sponsor: University of Chicago
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2007-09-12
Enrollment: 68
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: We propose a Phase II, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to test the hypothesis that treatment with once-daily statins has a beneficial effect on inflammatory cytokines and clinical outcomes in adults hospitalized with sepsis. As our animal models suggest pretreatment with statins are required for their beneficial effects, we propose a study design intended to identify patients and initiate treatment early in their hospital stay. This Phase II study is intended to assess the feasibility of conducting a large-scale investigator-initiated translational research protocol that involves multiple clinical services within the Department of Medicine.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age \> 18 years
* Initial presentation to the Emergency Department or University of Chicago MD office/Dialysis Center for current hospital admission
* Sepsis (ACCP/SCCM criteria)

  1. Clinically suspected infection as per the treating physician or confirmed infection
  2. 2 or more of the following: Temperature 38ºC (100.4ºF)or 36ºC (96.8ºF), Heart rate (HR) \> 90/min, Respiratory rate (RR) \> 20/min or PaCO2 \< 32 mmHg, White blood cell count \> 12,000/mm3 or \< 4000/m3 or \> 10%immature neutrophils
* Initiation of antibiotics by treating physician for sepsis
* Hospitalized from the Emergency Department or University of Chicago MD office/Dialysis Center to an inpatient medical service (intensive care unit (ICU)or non-ICU service) OR admission to the medical ICU (MICU) from a non-ICU inpatient medical floor.
* Assent of the primary treating physician at the time of enrollment.
* The meeting of SIRS criteria is due to an infection as per the treating physician.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnancy
* ALT \>3 times above the upper limit of normal
* Elevated creatine phosphokinase (CPK) (\>3 times the upper limit of normal)
* Concurrent treatment with any of the following drugs: daptomycin, fenofibrate, ketoconazole,triaconazole, amiodarone, clarithromycin, cyclosporine, erythromycin,nefazodone, niacin, protease inhibitors, telithromycin, verapamil,danazol, gemfibrozil
* History of allergy or intolerance to statins
* Greater than 16 hours after meeting inclusion criteria
* Use of 1 more doses of statins in the previous 4 weeks
* Clinical indication for treatment with statin during hospital admission (per treating physician)
* Sufficiently poor prognosis prior to enrollment that treating physicians have elected to employ comfort care or plan to discharge to hospice
* Transfer from surgical service to medical service
* Needing transfusion for either active bleeding or severe hemolysis.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time to Clinical Stability
timeFrame: 24 hours
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: The University of Chicago
state: Illinois
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Chicago
name: Jerry Krishnan, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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