NCT01626612

De-escalation of Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy Study in Severe Sepsis

De-escalation of Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy Study in Severe Sepsis: A Randomized Clinical Trial (DEA Study)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Rational: Severe sepsis is one of the leading cause of mortality in intensive care unit patients. Early initiation of an appropriate empirical antimicrobial therapy is associated with improved outcomes. In order to avoid an increase of selection pressure and the emergence of multidrug resistant pathogens, guidelines recommend to streamline the antimicrobial therapy after the identification of the pathogen responsible for infection. This strategy has been evaluated in several observational studies. However, at the bedside, few randomized clinical trials tested this strategy prospectively. Method: the investigators conduct a randomized clinical trial comparing a strategy based on de-escalation (streamlining of the empirical antimicrobial therapy) and a conservative strategy (continuation of the empirical antimicrobial therapy). The investigators first aim was to show that a strategy based on de-escalation is not inferior to a conservative strategy in terms of intensive care unit length of stay. Secondary aims are to compare the rate of mortality rate, the emergence of multidrug resistant pathogens, and the feasibility of de-escalation. The study is performed in nine intensive care units from four institutions, and 120 patients are required to validate the investigators hypothesis. New technologies for the rapid diagnosis of severe infections are investigated in an ancillary study.

Conditions

• Severe Sepsis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	continuation of the empirical antimicrobial therapy	ALL THE ANTIBACTERIAL IN WORN SYSTEMATIC
PROCEDURE	streamlining of the empirical antimicrobial therapy	ALL THE ANTIBACTERIAL IN WORN SYSTEMATIC

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2012-06-25
• Last updated: 2015-04-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France