Sickle Cell DiseaseNCT02386657
Single-center Prospective Evaluation of Sickle Cell Patient Care in the CHU Brugmann Emergency Department
An observational study of Sickle Cell Disease, run by Brugmann University Hospital at 1 site in Belgium.
Trial summary
Sickle Cell Disease is a serious disease that is life-threatening for patients being homozygous for the SS form or heterozygous for the SC or bthal forms. The CHU Brugmann hospital currently regularly treats about 70 homozygous adult patients and this number is in constant augmentation. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Sickle Cell Disease
- What is being tested?
- Satisfaction, Biological parameters and Pain management
- How many people
- 104 participants
- Where
- 1 siteBelgium
- Study dates
- Nov 2012to Jun 2016
- Phase
- Observational
- 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 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: Sickle Cell Disease patients, entering the Emergency Department of the Brugmann Hospital for a vaso-occlusive crisis.
Who may be able to join
- Any sickle cell disease patient being admitted inside the Emergency Department of the Brugmann Hospital for a vaso-occlusive crisis, having signed the informed consent form and being able to fill in the analogic visual questionnaire (EVA).
Who cannot join
- Patients not being able to sign the informed consent form or fill in the analogic visual questionnaire (EVA)
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Sickle Cell Disease is a serious disease that is life-threatening for patients being homozygous for the SS form or heterozygous for the SC or bthal forms. The CHU Brugmann hospital currently regularly treats about 70 homozygous adult patients and this number is in constant augmentation. The age average of the patients is below 30. The hospital developed a close collaboration with the Queen Fabiola Kids University Hospital to optimize the transition of young sickle cell patients from the pediatric to the adult network.
The emergency care of sickle cell patients remains a source of worry. Even with a correct treatment (Hydroxy-urea or exsanguineous transfusions), patients suffer from frequent sickle cell disease crisis when stress or infection cause hemolysis. The pain level is intolerable and causes emergency hospital admission (2 to 3 crisis per patient per year on average). The crisis are more frequent with poor compliance to the treatments.
Read more
There are several obstacles to the rapid and optimal management of these patients:
- fear of causing addiction to heavy pain releaf products (high dosis of morphine)
- lack of biological parameters for the determination of the crisis severity.
The prognostic value of the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level in a vaso-occlusive crisis was recently stressed while activation of the coagulation, translated by the elevation of various parameters including the rate of DD dimers, seemed associated with clinical complications. The deleterious role of increased oxidative stress has also been recently demonstrated in patients with sickle cell disease, opening new therapeutic avenues.
This study aims to prospectively evaluate the management of sickle cell patients being admitted in the emergency department for a vaso-occlusive crisis. The level of satisfaction of the patients will be measured.
The investigators will also evaluate the predictive value of several routine biological parameters regarding the severity of the crisis, including the values of nitrous albumin (PNA) as marker of oxydative stress. This last dosage will be made in collaboration with the team of Dr Wayenberg and Pr Bottari in Grenoble.
- Conditions
- Sickle Cell Disease
- Being tested
- Satisfaction, Biological parameters, Pain management
- Keywords
- Sickle Cell Disease, Vaso-occlusive crisis, Emergency management
- Medical subject headings
- Anemia, Sickle Cell, Vaso-Occlusive Crises
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
SatisfactionOther
Satisfaction questionnaire to be filled in
Biological parametersOther
Measure of standard routine biological parameters (Hb, GB, Plaq, LDH, CRP, TCA, INR, D Dimers) and dosage of nitrous albumin (PNA).
Pain managementOther
Validated pain scale questionnaire to be filled in
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency admitted sickle cell disease patients | Sickle Cell Disease Patients admitted inside the Emergency Department of the Brugmann Hospital for a vaso-occlusive crisis. Receives: Other: Satisfaction; Other: Biological parameters; Other: Pain management |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
EVA pain scale
The pain will be evaluated using the EVA scale (Visual Analogic scale) by the patient himself and by the nursing staff (hetero-anamnesis). Time frames will be: at admission within the emergency department, 1 hour after admission, 3h after admission, 6 hours after admission and, if the pain did not disappear by then, every 6 hours until the pain disappears.
Measured: 48 hours
Secondary outcomes (5)
Satisfaction questionnaire
Satisfaction of the patient regarding the management of his/her pain management.
Measured: 10 days
Morphine amount
Morphine amount administrated within the Emergency Department and during hospitalization length.
Measured: 10 days
Hospitalisation length
Time needed being hospitalized in order to control the pain level after the initial episode.
Measured: 10 days
Standard biological parameters
Dosage of the standard biological parameters (Hb, GB, Plaq, LDH, CRP, TCA, INR, D Dimers) and the nitrous albumin levels (PNA) at hospital admission.
Measured: at hospital emergency service admission
Standard biological parameters
Dosage of the standard biological parameters (Hb, GB, Plaq, LDH, CRP, TCA, INR, D Dimers) and the nitrous albumin levels (PNA) at the end of hospitalisation.
Measured: 10 days
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted12 Mar 2015 (estimated)
- Study startNov 2012
- Primary completionFeb 2015
- Study completionJun 2016
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (14)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Sickle Cell DiseaseStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Prospective
- Enrolment
- 104 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Brugmann University Hospital
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Andre Efira, Brugmann University Hospital
- Investigators
- Marie-Agnès Azerad, MD, Principal investigator, CHU Brugmann
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02386657
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- CHUB-Edu
- Status last verified
- Jul 2016
- First submitted
- 3 Mar 2015
- Last updated
- 21 Jul 2016
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Publications
Platt OS, Thorington BD, Brambilla DJ, Milner PF, Rosse WF, Vichinsky E, Kinney TR. Pain in sickle cell disease. Rates and risk factors. N Engl J Med. 1991 Jul 4;325(1):11-6. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199107043250103.
PubMed 1710777Solomon LR. Treatment and prevention of pain due to vaso-occlusive crises in adults with sickle cell disease: an educational void. Blood. 2008 Feb 1;111(3):997-1003. doi: 10.1182/blood-2007-07-089144. Epub 2007 Oct 16.
PubMed 17940207Brookoff D, Polomano R. Treating sickle cell pain like cancer pain. Ann Intern Med. 1992 Mar 1;116(5):364-8. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-116-5-364.
PubMed 1736768Payne R. Sickle cell anemia and pain: will data prevail over beliefs? Ann Emerg Med. 2009 May;53(5):596-7. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.10.022. No abstract available.
PubMed 19380037Zempsky WT. Treatment of sickle cell pain: fostering trust and justice. JAMA. 2009 Dec 9;302(22):2479-80. doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1811. No abstract available.
PubMed 19996405Tanabe P, Artz N, Mark Courtney D, Martinovich Z, Weiss KB, Zvirbulis E, Hafner JW. Adult emergency department patients with sickle cell pain crisis: a learning collaborative model to improve analgesic management. Acad Emerg Med. 2010 Apr;17(4):399-407. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00693.x.
PubMed 20370779Tanabe P, Hafner JW, Martinovich Z, Artz N. Adult emergency department patients with sickle cell pain crisis: results from a quality improvement learning collaborative model to improve analgesic management. Acad Emerg Med. 2012 Apr;19(4):430-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01330.x.
PubMed 22506947Anie KA, Grocott H, White L, Dzingina M, Rogers G, Cho G. Patient self-assessment of hospital pain, mood and health-related quality of life in adults with sickle cell disease. BMJ Open. 2012 Jul 2;2(4):e001274. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001274. Print 2012.
PubMed 22761289Stankovic Stojanovic K, Steichen O, Lefevre G, Bachmeyer C, Avellino V, Grateau G, Girot R, Lionnet F. High lactate dehydrogenase levels at admission for painful vaso-occlusive crisis is associated with severe outcome in adult SCD patients. Clin Biochem. 2012 Dec;45(18):1578-82. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2012.07.114. Epub 2012 Aug 8.
PubMed 22892192Ataga KI, Brittain JE, Desai P, May R, Jones S, Delaney J, Strayhorn D, Hinderliter A, Key NS. Association of coagulation activation with clinical complications in sickle cell disease. PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e29786. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029786. Epub 2012 Jan 11.
PubMed 22253781Rees DC, Gibson JS. Biomarkers in sickle cell disease. Br J Haematol. 2012 Feb;156(4):433-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08961.x. Epub 2011 Nov 28.
PubMed 22122125Schnog JB, Teerlink T, van der Dijs FP, Duits AJ, Muskiet FA; CURAMA Study Group. Plasma levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, are elevated in sickle cell disease. Ann Hematol. 2005 May;84(5):282-6. doi: 10.1007/s00277-004-0983-3. Epub 2004 Dec 14.
PubMed 15599544Nur E, Brandjes DP, Teerlink T, Otten HM, Oude Elferink RP, Muskiet F, Evers LM, ten Cate H, Biemond BJ, Duits AJ, Schnog JJ; CURAMA study group. N-acetylcysteine reduces oxidative stress in sickle cell patients. Ann Hematol. 2012 Jul;91(7):1097-105. doi: 10.1007/s00277-011-1404-z. Epub 2012 Feb 10.
PubMed 22318468Wayenberg JL, Ransy V, Vermeylen D, Damis E, Bottari SP. Nitrated plasma albumin as a marker of nitrative stress and neonatal encephalopathy in perinatal asphyxia. Free Radic Biol Med. 2009 Oct 1;47(7):975-82. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.07.003. Epub 2009 Jul 8.
PubMed 19591921
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 21 Jul 2016. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Single-center Prospective Evaluation of Sickle Cell Patient Care in the CHU Brugmann Emergency Department
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02386657
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- CHUB-Edu
- Conditions
- Sickle Cell Disease
- Keywords
- Sickle Cell Disease, Vaso-occlusive crisis, Emergency management
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 104 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Brugmann University HospitalUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Nov 2012
- Primary completion
- Feb 2015 (actual)
- Study completion
- Jun 2016 (actual)
- First posted
- 12 Mar 2015 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Sickle Cell Disease is a serious disease that is life-threatening for patients being homozygous for the SS form or heterozygous for the SC or bthal forms. The CHU Brugmann hospital currently regularly treats about 70 homozygous adult patients and this number is in constant augmentation. The age average of the patients is below 30. The hospital developed a close collaboration with the Queen Fabiola Kids University Hospital to optimize the transition of young sickle cell patients from the pediatric to the adult network.
The emergency care of sickle cell patients remains a source of worry. Even with a correct treatment (Hydroxy-urea or exsanguineous transfusions), patients suffer from frequent sickle cell disease crisis when stress or infection cause hemolysis. The pain level is intolerable and causes emergency hospital admission (2 to 3 crisis per patient per year on average). The crisis are more frequent with poor compliance to the treatments.
There are several obstacles to the rapid and optimal management of these patients:
- fear of causing addiction to heavy pain releaf products (high dosis of morphine)
- lack of biological parameters for the determination of the crisis severity.
The prognostic value of the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level in a vaso-occlusive crisis was recently stressed while activation of the coagulation, translated by the elevation of various parameters including the rate of DD dimers, seemed associated with clinical complications. The deleterious role of increased oxidative stress has also been recently demonstrated in patients with sickle cell disease, opening new therapeutic avenues.
This study aims to prospectively evaluate the management of sickle cell patients being admitted in the emergency department for a vaso-occlusive crisis. The level of satisfaction of the patients will be measured.
The investigators will also evaluate the predictive value of several routine biological parameters regarding the severity of the crisis, including the values of nitrous albumin (PNA) as marker of oxydative stress. This last dosage will be made in collaboration with the team of Dr Wayenberg and Pr Bottari in Grenoble.
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Prospective
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency admitted sickle cell disease patients | – | Other: Satisfaction, Other: Biological parameters, Other: Pain managementSickle Cell Disease Patients admitted inside the Emergency Department of the Brugmann Hospital for a vaso-occlusive crisis. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- Sickle Cell Disease patients, entering the Emergency Department of the Brugmann Hospital for a vaso-occlusive crisis.
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Any sickle cell disease patient being admitted inside the Emergency Department of the Brugmann Hospital for a vaso-occlusive crisis, having signed the informed consent form and being able to fill in the analogic visual questionnaire (EVA).
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Patients not being able to sign the informed consent form or fill in the analogic visual questionnaire (EVA)
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| SatisfactionSatisfaction questionnaire to be filled in | Other | Emergency admitted sickle cell disease patients |
| Biological parametersMeasure of standard routine biological parameters (Hb, GB, Plaq, LDH, CRP, TCA, INR, D Dimers) and dosage of nitrous albumin (PNA). | Other | Emergency admitted sickle cell disease patients |
| Pain managementValidated pain scale questionnaire to be filled in | Other | Emergency admitted sickle cell disease patients |
Primary outcome
EVA pain scale
Time frame: 48 hours
The pain will be evaluated using the EVA scale (Visual Analogic scale) by the patient himself and by the nursing staff (hetero-anamnesis). Time frames will be: at admission within the emergency department, 1 hour after admission, 3h after admission, 6 hours after admission and, if the pain did not disappear by then, every 6 hours until the pain disappears.
5 secondary outcomes
Satisfaction questionnaire
Time frame: 10 days
Morphine amount
Time frame: 10 days
Hospitalisation length
Time frame: 10 days
Standard biological parameters
Time frame: at hospital emergency service admission
Standard biological parameters
Time frame: 10 days
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 21 Jul 2016.
- Background: PubMed 1710777Platt OS, Thorington BD, Brambilla DJ, Milner PF, Rosse WF, Vichinsky E, Kinney TR. Pain in sickle cell disease. Rates and risk factors. N Engl J Med. 1991 Jul 4;325(1):11-6. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199107043250103.
- Background: PubMed 17940207Solomon LR. Treatment and prevention of pain due to vaso-occlusive crises in adults with sickle cell disease: an educational void. Blood. 2008 Feb 1;111(3):997-1003. doi: 10.1182/blood-2007-07-089144. Epub 2007 Oct 16.
- Background: PubMed 1736768Brookoff D, Polomano R. Treating sickle cell pain like cancer pain. Ann Intern Med. 1992 Mar 1;116(5):364-8. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-116-5-364.
- Background: PubMed 19380037Payne R. Sickle cell anemia and pain: will data prevail over beliefs? Ann Emerg Med. 2009 May;53(5):596-7. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.10.022. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 19996405Zempsky WT. Treatment of sickle cell pain: fostering trust and justice. JAMA. 2009 Dec 9;302(22):2479-80. doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1811. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 20370779Tanabe P, Artz N, Mark Courtney D, Martinovich Z, Weiss KB, Zvirbulis E, Hafner JW. Adult emergency department patients with sickle cell pain crisis: a learning collaborative model to improve analgesic management. Acad Emerg Med. 2010 Apr;17(4):399-407. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00693.x.
- Background: PubMed 22506947Tanabe P, Hafner JW, Martinovich Z, Artz N. Adult emergency department patients with sickle cell pain crisis: results from a quality improvement learning collaborative model to improve analgesic management. Acad Emerg Med. 2012 Apr;19(4):430-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01330.x.
- Background: PubMed 22761289Anie KA, Grocott H, White L, Dzingina M, Rogers G, Cho G. Patient self-assessment of hospital pain, mood and health-related quality of life in adults with sickle cell disease. BMJ Open. 2012 Jul 2;2(4):e001274. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001274. Print 2012.
- Background: PubMed 22892192Stankovic Stojanovic K, Steichen O, Lefevre G, Bachmeyer C, Avellino V, Grateau G, Girot R, Lionnet F. High lactate dehydrogenase levels at admission for painful vaso-occlusive crisis is associated with severe outcome in adult SCD patients. Clin Biochem. 2012 Dec;45(18):1578-82. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2012.07.114. Epub 2012 Aug 8.
- Background: PubMed 22253781Ataga KI, Brittain JE, Desai P, May R, Jones S, Delaney J, Strayhorn D, Hinderliter A, Key NS. Association of coagulation activation with clinical complications in sickle cell disease. PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e29786. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029786. Epub 2012 Jan 11.
- Background: PubMed 22122125Rees DC, Gibson JS. Biomarkers in sickle cell disease. Br J Haematol. 2012 Feb;156(4):433-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08961.x. Epub 2011 Nov 28.
- Background: PubMed 15599544Schnog JB, Teerlink T, van der Dijs FP, Duits AJ, Muskiet FA; CURAMA Study Group. Plasma levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, are elevated in sickle cell disease. Ann Hematol. 2005 May;84(5):282-6. doi: 10.1007/s00277-004-0983-3. Epub 2004 Dec 14.
Related trials for Sickle Cell Disease
Active, not recruitingPhase 1/2
Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of Long-term Mitapivat Dosing in Subjects With Stable Sickle Cell Disease: An Extension of a Phase I Pilot Study of Mitapivat
Sickle Cell Disease, Hemolytic Anemia
RecruitingObservational study
HPC Offered for PRESERVE Expansion
Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT)
RecruitingPhase 1
Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of Escalating Doses of Fostamatinib in Subjects With Stable Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle Cell Disorders, Sickle Cell Disease
RecruitingPhase 4
Clinical and Biomarker Effects of Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate in Females With Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), Vaso-Occlusive Pain Episode in Sickle Cell Disease
Not yet recruitingPhase 1
Buprenorphine for the Management of Pain in Children With Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), Sickle Cell Disease Vaso-occlusive Crisis
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Marie-Agnès Azerad, MD principal investigator
CHU Brugmann
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Sickle Cell Disease, run by Brugmann University Hospital at 1 site in Belgium.
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: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Jul 2016. 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 Belgium. 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?
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?
EVA pain scale (time frame: 48 hours). 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 NCT02386657, which also lists 14 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 21 Jul 2016.