Status:

TERMINATED

Molecular Biomarkers for Sepsis

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Collaborating Sponsors:

Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN)

Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT) initiative of ETH Zürich

Conditions:

Sepsis

Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia (sCAP)

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

This multi-center observational case-control study in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients is to identify novel biomarkers allowing to recognize severe community acquired pneumonia (sCAP) -associated se...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Admission to the ICU of one of the participating centers.
  • Cases: severe community acquired pneumonia with requirement for ICU admission.
  • Controls: Clinical phenotype of inflammation not due to suspected sepsis In addition, control patients will be patients with fever \>38°C, CRP \>100mg/L, no infection focus expected in ≥ 24h.
  • All required sample types can most likely be collected within the first 24h visits.
  • Expected ICU stay of more than 24h.

Exclusion

  • Admission to the hospital within the prior 14 days.
  • Patients with psychosis
  • Evidence of a hospital acquired pneumonia.
  • One of the following respiratory conditions: Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or bronchiectasis, acute severe asthma, aspiration pneumonia, tuberculosis, clinical suspected viral pneumonia without bacterial infection, cardiogenic pulmonary oedema.
  • Patients with an acute respiratory distress Syndrome (ARDS).
  • Patient which can be managed as outpatients and do not require an ICU.
  • Patient where a transmission to another institution is likely within the next 24h.
  • Documented rejection of the general consent or participation to research in general.
  • Patients with a palliative situation and a life expectancy due to other diseases (e.g. progressed cancer) less than 28 days.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 16 2022

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 31 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

3 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04280354

Start Date

February 16 2022

End Date

July 31 2022

Last Update

May 9 2024

Active Locations (15)

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Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, University Hospital Basel

Basel, Switzerland, 4031

2

Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel

Basel, Switzerland, 4031

3

Intensive Care Unit; University Hospital Basel

Basel, Switzerland, 4031

4

Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern

Bern, Switzerland, 3001