Cefiderocol and Ampicillin-sulbactam vs. Colistin +/- Meropenem for Carbapenem Resistant A. Baumannii (CASCADE)

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status and phase: Enrolling; Phase 4

Conditions: Acinetobacter Bacteremia; Carbapenem Resistant Bacterial Infection; Acinetobacter Pneumonia

Treatments: Drug: Cefiderocol; Drug: Meropenem; Drug: Colistin; Drug: Ampicillin-sulbactam

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05922124

V0.1 May 2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with bloodstream infections, hospital acquired pneumonia or ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) treated with cefiderocol combined with ampicillin sulbactam will be compared to patients treated treated with colistin alone or colistin combined with meropenem.

Full description

This will be a prospective controlled clinical study with historical controls.

In the prospective CASCADE study consecutive consenting patients with bloodstream infections, hospital acquired pneumonia or ventilator-associated pneumonia will be treated with cefiderocol combined with ampicillin sulbactam in 3 hospitals in Israel and 2 hospitals in Italy, all endemic for CRAB. We plan to recruit 150 patients into this prospective studies.

The CASCADE cohort will be compared to patients treated for the same types of infection in two recently completed randomized controlled trials (AIDA and OVERCOME). These trials compared between treatment with colistin vs. treatment with colistin-meropenem combination therapy, both finding no difference between treatment groups among patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) pneumonia. Thus, patients in CASCADE will be compared to all patients with CRAB bloodstream infections, hospital acquired pneumonia or ventilator-associated pneumonia in these randomized controlled trials.

Enrollment: 734 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adults >18 years with bacteremia or hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP)/ ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) (Table 3) caused by carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii (CRAB) (meropenem and/ or imipenem minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) >8 μg/mL) susceptible to cefiderocol (disc zone diameter >=17 mm, corresponding to an MIC <2 μg/mL). We will include CRAB regardless of colistin, ampicillin-sulbactam, minocycline, tigecycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and/or aminoglycoside susceptibility of the isolate. Attribution of the HAP/ VAP to CRAB will be allowed with isolation of CRAB from any respiratory sample within 7 days prior to the clinical diagnosis of pneumonia.

Exclusion criteria

• More than 72 hours of therapy with in-vitro coverage against the CRAB within 96 hours of enrolment
• Polymicrobial carbapenem-susceptible infections: growth of other pathogens susceptible to carbapenems, or another beta-lactam, deemed clinically-significant by the treating physicians in blood or sputum (with HAP/ VAP). We will allow recruitment of patients with other carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria
• CRAB susceptible any beta-lactam other than cefiderocol
• Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) co-infection
• Immediate-type hypersensitivity to penicillin
• Pregnant women
• Previous participation in the trial
• Lack of informed consent, considering the procedures acceptable to ethics committees per locale, including deferred consent
• Infection requiring treatment for over 14 days, at the discretion of the investigators
• Life expectancy less than 24 hours or expected futility of antibiotic treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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734 participants in 2 patient groups

Cefiderocol + ampicillin-sulbactam

Experimental group

Description:

Cefiderocol 2 gram intravenous (IV) q8 hours and ampicillin-sulbactam 3 gram IV q6 hours for patients with normal creatinine clearance, both administered as extended infusion of 3 hours. Dosing adjusted according to reduced and augmented renal clearance and to renal replacement therapies.

Treatment:

Drug: Ampicillin-sulbactam

Drug: Cefiderocol

Colistin or colistin + meropenem

Active Comparator group

Description:

Colistin 9 million units (MIU) intravenous (IV) loading dose followed by 4.5 MIU for patients with normal creatinine clearance +/- meropenem 2 gram IV administered as extended infusion of 3 hours. Dosing adjusted according to reduced and augmented renal clearance and to renal replacement therapies.

Treatment:

Drug: Colistin

Drug: Meropenem