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Meropenem vs standard of care for treatment of late onset sepsis in children of less than 90 days of age: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Lutsar, I; Trafojer, UMT; Heath, PT; Metsvaht, T; Standing, J; Esposito, S; de Cabre, VM; Oeser, C; Aboulker, J-P; NeoMero Consortium (2011) Meropenem vs standard of care for treatment of late onset sepsis in children of less than 90 days of age: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 12. p. 215. ISSN 1745-6215 https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-215
SGUL Authors: Heath, Paul Trafford Standing, Joseph Frank

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Late onset neonatal sepsis (LOS) with the mortality of 17 to 27% is still a serious disease. Meropenem is an antibiotic with wide antibacterial coverage. The advantage of it over standard of care could be its wider antibacterial coverage and thus the use of mono-instead of combination therapy. METHODS: NeoMero-1, an open label, randomised, comparator controlled, superiority trial aims to compare the efficacy of meropenem with a predefined standard of care (ampicillin + gentamicin or cefotaxime + gentamicin) in the treatment of LOS in neonates and infants aged less than 90 days admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit.A total of 550 subjects will be recruited following a 1:1 randomisation scheme. The trial includes patients with culture confirmed (at least one positive culture from normally sterile site except coagulase negative staphylococci in addition to one clinical or laboratory criterion) or clinical sepsis (at least two laboratory and two clinical criteria suggestive of LOS in subjects with postmenstrual age < 44 weeks or fulfilment of criteria established by the International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference in subjects with postmenstrual age ≥ 44 weeks). Meropenem will be given at a dose of 20 mg/kg q12h or q8h depending on the gestational- and postnatal age. Comparator agents are administered as indicated in British National Formulary for Children. The primary endpoint measured at the test of cure visit (2 days after end of study therapy) is graded to success (all baseline symptoms and laboratory parameters are resolved or improved with no need to continue antibiotics and the baseline microorganisms are eradicated and no new microorganisms are identified and the patient has received allocated treatment for 11 ± 3 days with no modification) or a failure (all remaining cases). Secondary outcome measures include comparison of survival, relapse rates or new infections by Day 28, clinical response at Day 3 and end of therapy, duration of hospitalisation, population pharmacokinetic analysis of meropenem and effect of antibiotics on mucosal colonisation and development of antibacterial resistance.The study will start recruitment in September 2011; the total duration is of 24 months. TRIAL REGISTRATION: EudraCT 2011-001515-31.

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Additional Information: © 2011 Lutsar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Anti-Bacterial Agents, Clinical Protocols, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Length of Stay, Meropenem, Sepsis, Thienamycins, NeoMero Consortium, Humans, Sepsis, Thienamycins, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Clinical Protocols, Length of Stay, Infant, Infant, Newborn, randomised controlled trial, neonate, premature neonate, FP7, 1102 Cardiovascular Medicine And Haematology, 1103 Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, General & Internal Medicine
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: Trials
ISSN: 1745-6215
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
30 September 2011Published
30 September 2011Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Projects:
Project IDFunderFunder ID
G1002305Medical Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
242146Seventh Framework Programmehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004963
8799Estonian Science Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001837
SF0182726s06Estonian Target FinancingUNSPECIFIED
PubMed ID: 21958494
Web of Science ID: WOS:000295971200001
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/111334
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-215

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