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Calfactant for Direct Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (CARDS)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Study NCT00682500   Information provided by Pneuma Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
First Received: May 20, 2008   Last Updated: February 5, 2009   History of Changes
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May 20, 2008
February 5, 2009
May 2008
Mortality Rate [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00682500 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
Duration of mechanical ventilation [ Time Frame: 90 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
 
Calfactant for Direct Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Calfactant Therapy for Direct Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome & Direct Acute Lung Injury in Adults and Children

This study will determine if administration of an suspension of calfactant, a lung surfactant, intratracheally in patients with Direct Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome within 48 hours of requiring mechanical ventilation can decrease the mortality in patients with lethal disease and shorten the course of respiratory failure in patients with sub-lethal disease.

Recruitment limited to direct adult respiratory distress syndrome patients who have been intubated <48 hours. Origin of ARDS must be infectious pneumonia, aspiration of stomach contents, near drowning, smoke inhalation without pulmonary burn, inhaled industrial gas.

Phase III
Interventional
Treatment, Randomized, Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
  • Drug: Calfactant
  • Drug: Room Air (placebo)
Experimental: Calfactant treatment
 

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline.
 
Recruiting
480
September 2010
June 2010   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Respiratory failure due to diffuse infectious pneumonia, aspiration, near drowning, smoke inhalation or industrial gas
  2. Less than 48 hours of mechanical ventilation
  3. Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Pre-existing lung disease
  2. coma
  3. limited therapeutic goals (do not resuscitate, etc.)
  4. failure of another vital organ
Both
1 Month to 85 Years
No
Contact: Christine Traul, MD 434-982-3973 CT6Q@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Contact: Douglas Willson, MD 434-982-1707 dfw4m@virginia.edu
United States,   Canada,   Korea, Republic of
 
 
NCT00682500
Douglas Willson, MD, University of Virginia Health Science Center
 
Pneuma Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
 
Study Chair: Douglas Willson, MD Univeristy of Virginia Health Sciences Center
Study Chair: Jonathon Truwit, MD University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
Pneuma Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
February 2009

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