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SARS-CoV-2 Respiratory FailureCORMORNCT04388514

Blood Ozonization in Patients With SARS-CoV-2 Respiratory Failure

A study testing Medical Ozone procedure in people with SARS-CoV-2 Respiratory Failure, run by Azienda Sanitaria-Universitaria Integrata di Udine at 1 site in Italy.

Unknown status

Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

Aim. The emerging outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to spread worldwide. Beside the prescription of some promising drugs as chloroquine, azithromycin, antivirals (lopinavir/ritonavir, darunavir/cobicistat) and… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 99 years
Conditions the study is for
SARS-CoV-2 Respiratory Failure
What is being tested?
Medical Ozone procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
90 participants
Where
1 siteItaly
Study dates
8 Apr 2020to 8 Oct 2020
Phase
Interventional
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 18 to 99 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Male and no pregnant female patients 18 years of age or older were eligible if they had a diagnostic specimen that was positive on RT-PCR, had pneumonia confirmed by chest imaging and gave their informed consent to participate at the study

Who cannot join

  • Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, G6PHD (glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase) deficiency, concomitant serious disease and failure to obtain informed consent.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Carlo Tascini, MD contact

+39 0432 559355

c.tascini@gmail.com

Emanuela Sozio, MD contact

+39

emanuela.sozio@gmail.com

Italy1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Dott. Amato De Monte

    Udine

    Amato De Monte, MD

    Recruiting

Other trials in Italy

About this study

Aim. The emerging outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to spread worldwide. Beside the prescription of some promising drugs as chloroquine, azithromycin, antivirals (lopinavir/ritonavir, darunavir/cobicistat) and immunomodulating agents (steroids, tocilizumab), in our patients with mild to moderate pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 we planned a randomize study to evaluate, respect the best available therapy (BAT), the use of autohemotherapy treatement with an oxygen/ozone (O3) gaseous mixture as adjuvant therapy.

Design. Multicentric, randomized study.

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Participants. Clinical presentations are based upon clinical phenotypes identified by the Italian Society of Emergency and Urgency Medicine (SIMEU - Società Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza-Urgenza) and patients that meet criteria of phenotypes 2 to 4 were treat with best available therapy (BAT), and randomized to receive or not O3-autohemotherapy.

Main outcome measures. The end-point were the time of respiratory improvement and earlier weaning from oxygen support: these parameters were included in the SIMEU clinical phenotypes classification.

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Recruitment Details.

The investigator enrolled, in the study, subjects with COVID-19 modest to moderate respiratory insufficiency (SIMEU clinical phenotypes 2-4) thus cared in an infectious disease ward.

To note that The Italian Society of Emergency and Urgency Medicine (SIMEU - Società Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza-Urgenza) suggest to classified the COVID-19 patients in 5 clinical phenotypes:

  • Phenotype 1: subjects with fever and without respiratory failure (normal Arterial Blood Gas analysis - ABG -, six-minute walking test - 6mWT - and Chest XR). These patients usually can manage at home maintaining quarantine period.
  • Phenotype 2: subjects with fever but with ABG and/or Chest XR indicative of modest respiratory insufficiency (PO2> 60 mmHg in ambient air) and / or pulmonary consolidation area. These patients need to be hospitalized because they can get quickly worse.
  • Phenotype 3: subjects with fever associate to moderate-severe respiratory insufficiency (at triage PO2< 60 mmHg in ambient air) and /or bilateral pulmonary consolidation area at Chest XR. These patients need to be treated with high flow oxygen therapy.
  • Phenotype 4: subjects with respiratory failure with suspected ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome) or complicated pneumonia. These patients require hospitalization in sub-intensive care unit.
  • Phenotype 5: subject with ARDS at the beginning. These patients will require Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) or mechanical ventilation.
Being tested
Medical Ozone procedure
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2, Respiratory Failure, COVID-19, medical ozone, ozone therapy, cytokine release syndrome
Medical subject headings
Respiratory Insufficiency, COVID-19, Cytokine Release Syndrome

What participants receive

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

  • Medical Ozone procedureProcedure or surgery

    The systemic ozone treatment procedure was decided by the physician on duty and started preliminarily at the patient's bed with the drawing of autologous blood and, after proper O2/O3 mixing, with its re-infusion. After junction of an adequate venous patient's way with a dedicated latex free plastic bag containing 35 ml of sodium citrate, a blood amount of 200 ml is taken. At the end, the withdrawal line was washed and the re-infusion one was filled with saline solution. The blood, without any patient disconnection, was then mixed with a gas mixture of a 200 cc composed by 96% of Oxygen and 4% of Ozone with a therapeutic O3 range of 40 μg/mL of gas per mL of blood. In order to guarantee the O2/O3 homogeneous diffusion into the blood, the bag was gently mixed for about 10 minutes, therefore the blood was re-infused into the patients. The duration of ozone treatment lasted for 3 consecutive days.

Study groups in NCT04388514
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Blood ozonizationExperimentalBlood ozonization plus BAT
Receives: Procedure: Medical Ozone procedure
Standard of CareNo interventionBAT "only" To note that the BAT are therapy with antiretroviral therapy (lopinavir/ritonavir 2 tablets every 12 hours or darunavir/cobicistat 1 tablet per day) and hidrossycloroquine 400 mg every 12 hours then first day, followed by 200 mg every 12 hours for other 4 days.

What is being measured

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

  1. Time of respiratory improvement and earlier weaning from oxygen support

    Evaluation of ABG paramethers the day after the last blood ozonization procedure (Day 3)

    Measured: 3 days

  2. The time of respiratory improvement and earlier weaning from oxygen support

    Evaluation of ABG paramethers the one week after the last blood ozonization procedure (Day 10)

    Measured: 10 days

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. Assessment of the length of hospitalization

    Asse the lenghth of hospital stay in the two arms

    Measured: up to 90 days

  2. Assessment of the length of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stay

    Asse the lenghth of ICU stay in the two arms

    Measured: up to 90 days

  3. Improvment in chest imaging finding

    improving, worsening or stability of the chest imaging (chest CT, Chest XR and/or Point-of-Care Ultrasound) finding in the two arms

    Measured: 10 days

  4. Improvment in cytokine release syndrome

    Evaluation of plasmatic cytochine (IL-6, lymphocyte typing for CD4, CD3, CD8, HLA-DR, CD45) response in the two arms

    Measured: 10 days

Timeline

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

  1. First posted14 May 2020
  2. Study start8 Apr 2020
  3. Primary completion8 Oct 2020 (estimated)
  4. Study completion8 Oct 2020 (estimated)

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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
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
The study includes 2 arms: * Arm A: Blood ozonization plus BAT (n= 45 subjects) * Arm B: Standard of Care only without Blood ozonization (n= 45 subjects) To note that the Standard of Care are therapy with antiretroviral therapy (lopinavir/ritonavir 2 tablets every 12 hours or darunavir/cobicistat 1 tablet per day) and hidrossycloroquine 400 mg every 12 hours then first day, followed by 200 mg every 12 hours for other 4 days
Masking
Single blind
Who is masked
Investigator
Enrolment
90 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04388514
Sponsor's protocol ID
CIG: Z7C2CA5837
Acronym
CORMOR
Status last verified
May 2020
First submitted
11 May 2020
Last updated
14 May 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: all IPD that underlie results in a publication

Publications

  • Cao B, Wang Y, Wen D, Liu W, Wang J, Fan G, Ruan L, Song B, Cai Y, Wei M, Li X, Xia J, Chen N, Xiang J, Yu T, Bai T, Xie X, Zhang L, Li C, Yuan Y, Chen H, Li H, Huang H, Tu S, Gong F, Liu Y, Wei Y, Dong C, Zhou F, Gu X, Xu J, Liu Z, Zhang Y, Li H, Shang L, Wang K, Li K, Zhou X, Dong X, Qu Z, Lu S, Hu X, Ruan S, Luo S, Wu J, Peng L, Cheng F, Pan L, Zou J, Jia C, Wang J, Liu X, Wang S, Wu X, Ge Q, He J, Zhan H, Qiu F, Guo L, Huang C, Jaki T, Hayden FG, Horby PW, Zhang D, Wang C. A Trial of Lopinavir-Ritonavir in Adults Hospitalized with Severe Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2020 May 7;382(19):1787-1799. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2001282. Epub 2020 Mar 18.

    PubMed 32187464
  • Elvis AM, Ekta JS. Ozone therapy: A clinical review. J Nat Sci Biol Med. 2011 Jan;2(1):66-70. doi: 10.4103/0976-9668.82319.

    PubMed 22470237
  • Bocci VA. Scientific and medical aspects of ozone therapy. State of the art. Arch Med Res. 2006 May;37(4):425-35. doi: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2005.08.006.

    PubMed 16624639
  • Smith NL, Wilson AL, Gandhi J, Vatsia S, Khan SA. Ozone therapy: an overview of pharmacodynamics, current research, and clinical utility. Med Gas Res. 2017 Oct 17;7(3):212-219. doi: 10.4103/2045-9912.215752. eCollection 2017 Jul-Sep.

    PubMed 29152215
  • Gulmen S, Kurtoglu T, Meteoglu I, Kaya S, Okutan H. Ozone therapy as an adjunct to vancomycin enhances bacterial elimination in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus mediastinitis. J Surg Res. 2013 Nov;185(1):64-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.05.085. Epub 2013 Jun 19.

    PubMed 23809152

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Medical Ozone procedure in people with SARS-CoV-2 Respiratory Failure, run by Azienda Sanitaria-Universitaria Integrata di Udine at 1 site in Italy.

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 1 inclusion and 1 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 14 May 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 Italy. 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.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

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

Contact Carlo Tascini, MD (+39 0432 559355, c.tascini@gmail.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Time of respiratory improvement and earlier weaning from oxygen support (time frame: 3 days). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04388514, which also lists 5 linked publications.

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 14 May 2020.

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