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Bacterial Respiratory InfectionsEarly Phase 1BAC ONENCT02558062

Microdosing of BAC ONE to the Distal Lung

A Early Phase 1 study testing BAC ONE administration in people with Bacterial Respiratory Infections, run by University of Edinburgh at 1 site in United Kingdom.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Critically ill patients are often ventilated in dedicated critical care units to provide respiratory support. Despite best practice patients can often develop a condition called adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is characterised by deterioration in their respiratory function, and changes on chest… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 16 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Bacterial Respiratory Infections
What is being tested?
BAC ONE administration
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
14 participants
Where
1 siteUnited Kingdom
Study dates
May 2016to Dec 2018
Phase
Early Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 16 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • All cohorts
  • ≥ 16 years
  • Attending consultant permission for bronchoscopy
  • Cohort 1
  • Patients scheduled to undergo surgery under general anaesthesia
  • Absence of acute or significant chronic lung disease as determined by the clinical suspicion of the attending medical team or of a medically qualified member of the study investigation team.
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  • Scheduled presence of an endo-tracheal tube (ETT).
  • Capacity to provide informed consent
  • Cohort 2 and 3
  • Patients with bronchiectasis with known microbiological predominance of gram-negative or gram-positive bacteria.
  • Capacity to provide informed consent
  • Cohort 4
  • Patients in the ICU with suspected VAP and pulmonary infiltrates on radiological assessment
  • Presence of invasive tracheal ventilation tube
  • Provision of informed consent from the patient or their personal legal representative prior to any study related procedures.

Who cannot join

  • All cohorts
  • Refusal for participation by attending consultant
  • Any history of anaphylaxis
  • Significant coagulopathy, which causes bronchoscopy to be unsuitable, as determined by clinical co-investigator or the participant's attending consultant, using information which is routinely available
  • Myocardial infarction in the preceding four weeks
  • Women who are pregnant or are breastfeeding
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  • Receiving drugs that cause increased autofluorescence in the lung, specifically amiodorane and methotrexate
  • Participants in cohort 4 only
  • Inspired Oxygen Concentration (FiO2) >70%
  • Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) >10cm
  • ETT or tracheostomy internal diameter < 7mm
  • Presence of pneumothorax
  • Active bronchospasm
  • Mean arterial pressure <65mmHg AND on vasopressor
  • Platelet count < 50 x 109/L

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United Kingdom1 site
  • Royal Infirmary Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ

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About this study

Official title: Exploratory Clinical Study of Intrapulmonary Microdosing of the BACterial Detection Probe (BAC ONE) in Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Critically ill patients are often ventilated in dedicated critical care units to provide respiratory support. Despite best practice patients can often develop a condition called adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is characterised by deterioration in their respiratory function, and changes on chest x-ray. The correct management for ARDS is identifying the underlying condition causing the deterioration and identifying appropriate targeted therapy. One such cause is pneumonia, caused by a bacterial infection in the lungs of a ventilated patient. The patients may have been ventilated due to pneumonia but they may also develop pneumonia whilst ventilated. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) has significant mortality.

Despite all the clinical and laboratory data at the investigators' disposal there remains great difficulty in the accurate diagnosis of pneumonia and therefore treatment is often given empirically. Therefore, there is an urgent clinical need for accurate methods to diagnose the presence of bacteria deep in the lung in ventilated critically ill patients. As such, the investigating team have developed and synthesised an imaging agent called BAC ONE. BAC ONE will be instilled directly into the lungs of 12 patients (with and without lung infection) to assess whether it can label bacteria in the human lung.

Read the detailed description

The primary objective of this study is to deliver a BAC ONE microdose to ventilated controls and patients with lung infection to assess the imaging parameters of BAC ONE over human autofluorescence and to assess if bacteria can be detected in vivo in situ within the distal lung.

The primary endpoint is to visualise the delivery of a microdose of BAC ONE and assess imaging parameters in:

  • 3 mechanically ventilated patients to provide a control population (cohort 1)
  • 6 bronchiectasis patients with predominant colonisation with gram-negative bacteria (cohort 2)
  • 6 bronchiectasis patients with predominant colonisation with gram-positive bacteria (cohort 3)
  • 3 patients with suspected pneumonia and pulmonary infiltrates in ICU (cohort 4)

For all cohorts, eligibility will be verified by a clinical trial physician after written informed consent has been obtained. For all cohorts, a bronchoscopy with lavage will be performed to harvest broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF). Fibre-based endomicroscopy (FE) will be performed on up to three areas and up to 80μg (± 25%) in total of BAC ONE will be instilled in up to 3 sites.

Participants will be asked to provide additional blood and urine samples with the intention of examining for systemic uptake of the BAC ONE probe. Routine blood investigations will be performed 4-6 hours following the administration of BAC ONE. All participants will either be contacted by a member of the research team via telephone or ward visit 24 hours (± 4 hours) after BAC ONE dosing to ensure no AEs/SAEs were experienced. The participant's involvement in the study is concluded when the 24 hour assessment has been successfully completed and all AEs/SAEs have been resolved.

Being tested
BAC ONE administration
Keywords
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia, Distal lung
Medical subject headings
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • BAC ONE administrationOther

    Also called BAC ONE

    BAC ONE will be administered to each patient during a bronchoscopy procedure. Fibre-based endomicroscopy and Cellvizio viewer software will be used to detect BAC ONE signal in the distal lung.

Study groups in NCT02558062
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
BAC ONE administrationExperimentalAll participants in this clinical study will be dosed on one occasion with BAC ONE. The final dosage will be 80 µg (± 25%).
Receives: Other: BAC ONE administration

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. The measurement of BAC ONE fluorescence intensity in the distal lung

    The main primary outcome measure is to visualise the delivery of BAC ONE in the distal lung of both ventilated controls and patients with acute or chronic bacterial lung infection through the measurement of fluorescence using FE and Cellvizio viewer software.

    Measured: Fluorescence signal can be detected within a couple of minutes following BAC ONE administration. On average, signal analysis will be completed within one week of the procedure.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted23 Sep 2015 (estimated)
  2. Study startMay 2016
  3. Primary completionDec 2018
  4. Study completionDec 2018

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Early Phase 1
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
14 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02558062
Sponsor's protocol ID
BAC ONE
Acronym
BAC ONE
Status last verified
Mar 2020
First submitted
17 Sep 2015
Last updated
26 Mar 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Early Phase 1 study testing BAC ONE administration in people with Bacterial Respiratory Infections, run by University of Edinburgh at 1 site in United Kingdom.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 15 inclusion and 15 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Mar 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United Kingdom. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Early Phase 1 (sometimes called Phase 0) studies give a very small amount of a treatment to a few people, mainly to see how the body handles it.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

The measurement of BAC ONE fluorescence intensity in the distal lung (time frame: Fluorescence signal can be detected within a couple of minutes following BAC ONE administration. On average, signal analysis will be completed within one week of the procedure.). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Mar 2020.

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