Clinical trial • Phase III • Haematology
LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE for Sickle cell disease
Phase III trial of LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE for Sickle cell disease.
Overview
- Trial Therapeutic Area
- Haematology
- Trial Disease
- Sickle cell disease
- Trial Stage
- Phase III
- Drug Modality
- Small molecule
Key dates
- Initial CTIS Submission Date
- 16-07-2025
- First CTIS Authorization Date
- 05-11-2025
Trial design
Randomised, placebo (sodium chloride solution for injection) + standard of care; administered as a placebo infusion matching the lidocaine infusion for up to 72 hours (day 1–3).-controlled Phase III trial across 11 sites in France.
- Randomised
- Yes
- Comparator
- Placebo (SODIUM CHLORIDE solution for injection) + standard of care; administered as a placebo infusion matching the lidocaine infusion for up to 72 hours (Day 1–3).
- Target Sample Size
- 104
- Trial Duration For Participant
- 28
Eligibility
Recruits 104 Consent: "Patient or next of kin informed about the study and having consented to participation of the patient in the study. If patient is no competent and no next of kin can be contacted during screening for the study, trial inclusion will be completed as an emergency procedure by the intensive care unit physician, in compliance with French law." Vulnerable populations: study excludes "Patients under guardianship, curatorship or under legal protection"; emergency inclusion by ICU physician is allowed under French law when patient is not competent and no next of kin can be contacted..
- Pregnancy Exclusion
- Pregnant women or nursing mothers; Women of child bearing potential will be tested for pregnancy before inclusion
- Vulnerable Population
- Consent: "Patient or next of kin informed about the study and having consented to participation of the patient in the study. If patient is no competent and no next of kin can be contacted during screening for the study, trial inclusion will be completed as an emergency procedure by the intensive care unit physician, in compliance with French law." Vulnerable populations: study excludes "Patients under guardianship, curatorship or under legal protection"; emergency inclusion by ICU physician is allowed under French law when patient is not competent and no next of kin can be contacted.
Inclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Age ≥18 years\n- Known sickle cell disease with an SS, SC, Sβ0, or Sβ+ genotype\n- Patient admitted to the intensive care unit for vaso-occlusive crisis and/or acute chest syndrome as the main reason for admission : Vaso-occlusive crisis defined by acute pain or tenderness, affecting at least one part of the body, including limbs, ribs, sternum, head (skull), spine, and/or pelvis, not attributable to other cause / Acute chest syndrome defined by the association of clinical respiratory sign(s): dyspnea and/or chest pain and/or auscultatory abnormality (crepitants and/or bronchial breathing) with a new pulmonary infiltrate on chest X-ray, thoracic CT-scan, or lung ultrasound.\n- Treatment with parenteral morphine or oxycodone started less than 72 hours prior to inclusion\n- Patient or next of kin informed about the study and having consented to participation of the patient in the study. If patient is no competent and no next of kin can be contacted during screening for the study, trial inclusion will be completed as an emergency procedure by the intensive care unit physician, in compliance with French law\n- French speaking\n- Patient with health care insurance"}
Exclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Pregnant women or nursing mothers; Women of child bearing potential will be tested for pregnancy before inclusion\n- Epileptic patients\n- Hypovolemic shock or shock of other cause at screening for inclusion\n- Known atrioventricular block, QT prolongation or other heart conduction disorder or heart failure\n- Chronic respiratory failure with long term non invasive ventilation (excluding Continuous Positive Air way pressure), or long term oxygen therapy at home\n- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome according to The 2012 Berlin definition\n- Acute or Chronic liver failure with MELD > 19 according to CKD-EPI\n- Acute or Chronic kidney failure with clearance <30mL/min/m2\n- Body weight <40kg and >120kg\n- Prior inclusion in the study in the last 3 months\n- Patients under guardianship, curatorship or under legal protection\n- Prisoners or subjects who are involuntarily incarcerated\n- Sickle cell disease acute complication other than vaso-occlusive crisis or acute chest syndrome as the main reason for admission : priapism, stroke, acute splenic sequestration, acute hepatic sequestration, bone marrow necrosis.\n- Patients wearing a lidocaine-medicated plaster at the time of screening for inclusion\n- Known or assumed hypersensitivity to lidocaine hydrochloride, other local anaesthetics (e.g., bupivacaine or ropivacaine) or an excipient\n- Patients treated with anti-arhythmic drugs known to induce torsade de pointe\n- Patients on chronic or occasional treatment with drugs that interact with the 3A cytochrome isoenzymes (CYP3A) and/or 1A2 cytochrome isoenzymes (CYP1A2)\n- Patients with recurrent porphyria, porphyria in remission, or known asymptomatic carriage of gene mutations responsible for porphyria\n- Patient under invasive mechanical ventilation\n- Altered consciousness with Glasgow coma scale <13"}
Endpoints
Primary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Cumulative parenteral opioid dose between randomisation and discharge from the intensive care unit expressed in morphine milligram equivalent. Only parenteral morphine and parenteral oxycodone will be taken in account, as tramadol and codein are weak opioids, and stronger opioids like fentanyl or sufentanyl are not likely to be used for spontaneously breathing patients.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as cumulative parenteral opioid dose between randomisation and ICU discharge, expressed in morphine milligram equivalents (only parenteral morphine and parenteral oxycodone counted)."}
Secondary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Intensive care unit length of stay, in days, from randomisation\n- Hospital length of stay, in days, from randomisation\n- Visual Analogue pain Scale score and Categorical Pain Score score during intensive care unit stay\n- Time from randomisation to vaso-occlusive crisis resolution, defined as presence of at least three of the following four criteria: continuous apyrexia for the last 8 hours, no need for intravenous opioid infusion for the last 8 hours, ability to walk or move without pain, and absence of spontaneous pain with a Categorical Pain Scale ≤1\n- Time from randomisation to the last parenteral opioid dose\n- Frequency of vaso-occlusive crisis complications: a) secondary acute chest syndrome (i.e. acute chest syndrome occurring after randomisation), b) need for blood transfusion, c) need for red blood cell exchange, d) need for life-supporting therapies defined as invasive mechanical ventilation or dialysis or vasopressor support\n- Score of French version of Adult Sickle Cell Quality of Life Measurement Information System (ASCQ-Me) at D28\n- Frequency of any adverse events and frequency of serious adverse events at D28\n- Frequency of re-admissions in hospital (medicine ward or intensive care unit) or emergency-room visits by D28\n- Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (cost par Quality-Adjusted Life-Year, QALY) comparing lidocaine + standard of care to standard of care alone","definition_or_measurement_approach":"ICU and hospital length of stay measured in days from randomisation; pain measured using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Categorical Pain Score during ICU stay; vaso-occlusive crisis resolution defined by ≥3 of: continuous apyrexia for last 8 hours, no IV opioid infusion for last 8 hours, ability to walk/move without pain, absence of spontaneous pain with CPS ≤1; time to last parenteral opioid dose measured from randomisation; complications recorded as specified (secondary ACS, transfusion, RBC exchange, need for life-supporting therapies); ASCQ-Me score at Day 28; adverse events and serious adverse events frequency at Day 28; readmissions/ER visits by Day 28; incremental cost-effectiveness ratio calculated as cost per QALY comparing lidocaine + SOC vs SOC alone."}
Recruitment
- Planned Sample Size
- 104
- Recruitment Window Months
- 25
- Consent Approach
- Informed consent obtained from the patient or next of kin. If the patient is not competent and no next of kin can be contacted during screening, inclusion may be completed as an emergency procedure by the intensive care unit physician, in compliance with French law. Study documents include subject information and informed consent forms for patients and for next of kin; inclusion requires participants to be French speaking.
Methods
- Recruitment of eligible patients admitted to intensive care units at participating hospitals in France; enrolment performed in the ICU setting with patients or next of kin provided with study information and asked to consent; if patient is not competent and no next of kin can be contacted during screening, emergency inclusion can be completed by the ICU physician in compliance with French law.
Geography
- Total Number Of Sites
- 11
- Total Number Of Participants
- 104
France
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 03-09-2025
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 05-11-2025
- Processing Time Days
- 63
- Number Of Sites
- 11
- Number Of Participants
- 104
Sites
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Orléans
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Marie SKARZYNSKI
- Contact Person Email
- marie.skarzynski@chu-orleans.fr
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Lille
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Arthur DURAND
- Contact Person Email
- arthur.durand@chu-lille.fr
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Tours
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Charlotte SALMON-GANDONNIERE
- Contact Person Email
- c.salmon-gandonniere@chu-tours.fr
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Bordeaux
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Arthur ORIEUX
- Contact Person Email
- arthur.orieux@chu-bordeaux.fr
- Site Name
- Hopital Tenon
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Muriel FARTOUKH
- Contact Person Email
- muriel.fartoukh@aphp.fr
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Poitiers
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Delphine CHATELLIER
- Contact Person Email
- delphine.chatellier@chu-poitiers.fr
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De La Guadeloupe
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Frédéric MARTINO
- Contact Person Email
- frederic.martino@chu-guadeloupe.fr
- Site Name
- Hôpital de la Timone
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Jérémy BOURENNE
- Contact Person Email
- jeremy.bourenne@ap-hm.fr
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Rouen
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Maximillien GRALL
- Contact Person Email
- maximillien.grall@chu-rouen.fr
- Site Name
- IUCT-Oncopole
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Sihem BOUAHARAOUA
- Contact Person Email
- bouaharaoua.sihem@iuct-oncopole.fr
- Site Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Nantes
- Department Name
- Médecine Intensive Réanimation
- Contact Person Name
- Maïté AGBAKOU
- Contact Person Email
- maite.agbakou@chu-nantes.fr
Sponsor
Primary sponsor
- Full Name
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Nantes
- Organisation Type
- Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility
- Country Of Registered Address
- France
Investigational products
- Investigational Product Name
- LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE
- Active Substance
- LIDOCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Parenteral
- Route
- Parenteral (injection/infusion)
- Authorisation Status
- Off-label use
- Frequency
- Continuous infusion for up to 72 hours (Day 1–3)
- Maximum Dose
- Max daily 3060 mg; max total 8820 mg
- Investigational Product Name
- SODIUM CHLORIDE
- Active Substance
- SODIUM CHLORIDE
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Parenteral
- Route
- Parenteral (injection/infusion)
- Frequency
- Continuous infusion for up to 72 hours (placebo matching lidocaine)
- Maximum Dose
- Max daily 3060 mg; max total 8820 mg
- Combination Treatment
- Yes
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