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RecruitingNCT02299921Updated Oct 8, 2024

Effect of Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse on Immune Function in Critically Ill Patients With Respiratory Failure

An observational study in Infection, Alcohol Abuse and Drugs of Abuse, sponsored by University of Colorado, Denver. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 90 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-10-08.

Sponsored by University of Colorado, Denver · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Nov 2014; still recruiting 11 years 11 months later.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
300
Ages
18 Years to 90 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study plans to learn more about people who are sick in the hospital with a lung infection, or respiratory failure. Respiratory failure, or severe lung failure, is a life-threatening disease. When it happens, the lungs have trouble carrying out their normal function of getting oxygen into the blood, and removing carbon dioxide from the body. Investigators are conducting this study to see what drinking too much alcohol, using tobacco products, or using drugs (both legal and illegal) may do to lung infections and respiratory failure.

Subjects are asked to be in this research study because they are thought to have a lung infection and may also have respiratory failure. Alcohol, tobacco, and drug use have been linked to lung infections, respiratory failure, and even death, but the reasons for this aren't known. People who use unhealthy amounts of alcohol, tobacco, and or drugs may be more at risk for lung infections, and for severe complications due to lung infection. Subject participation is important whether or not you use alcohol and or drugs.

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Conditions studied

  • Infection
  • Alcohol Abuse
  • Drugs of Abuse
  • Lung Injury
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In context

Respiratory Insufficiency

1,650 studies on the registry are indexed under Respiratory Insufficiency; 296 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 300 is above the median of 100 across 545 observational studies indexed under Respiratory Insufficiency.

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Lead sponsor

University of Colorado, Denver is the lead sponsor of 1,499 studies on the registry; 315 are open to participants now.

Of its 139 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 89 (64%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 90 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Specific Aim 1. Adult medical ICU patients admitted to the University of Colorado Hospital for a primary respiratory problem, and who are expected to require ICU care ≥48 hrs

Specific Aim 2. Adult medical ICU patients with respiratory failure (due to underlying lung pathology) and who require endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria:

  • Specific Aim 1: Adult medical ICU patients admitted to the University of Colorado Hospital for a primary respiratory problem, and who are expected to require ICU care ≥48 hrs
  • Specific Aim 2: (1) Adult medical ICU patients with respiratory failure (due to underlying lung pathology) and who require endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. (2) Adult medical and other ICU patients with respiratory failure, not related to a lung condition, and who require endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. (3) Adult ICU patients previously admitted to the University of Colorado Hospital for a primary respiratory problem, and who required care ≥48 hrs.

Exclusion criteria, Specific Aim 1 and 2:

  • Patients who are expected to require ICU care \<48 hrs
  • Patients admitted to the ICU who are not ICU status (being housed for space issues)
  • Patient is unlikely to survive 48 hours
  • Patient is on comfort care (hospice measures)
  • Patients less than 18 or greater than 90 years of age
  • Patient is a prisoner
  • ICU attending declines enrollment of patient
  • Patients who are pregnant
  • Patients who have significant anemia, defined as Hgb\<8% or Hct\<24%, or who have evidence of active bleeding.

For bronchoscopy portion of Specific Aim 2.

  • Patients who are on either a fraction of inspired oxygen inspired oxygen fraction (FiO2)>80% or positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) >10 cm H20
  • Patients with platelets less than 30,000(chronically)
  • Patients who are expected to undergo a spontaneous breathing trial within the next 4 hours
  • Patients with an order or plan to extubate in the next 4 hours
  • Patients who have an endotracheal tube (ETT) \<7.5 F
  • Patients who are currently dangerously agitated
  • Pregnant women

Exclusion criteria (outpatients ONLY for SA2 (3)):

  1. Patients who required ICU care \<48 hrs
  2. Patients less than 18 or greater than 90 years of age
  3. Patient is a prisoner
  4. Patients who are pregnant
  5. Residency > 40 miles from UCH clinics
  6. non-English or non-Spanish speaking
  7. Inability to perform study procedures (i.e. physical disability)
  8. unable to perform pulmonary function testing
  9. diagnosis of chronic pulmonary disease (e.g. COPD)
  10. diagnosis of chronic neurodegenerative disease or severe dementia
  11. history of anoxic or traumatic brain injury
  12. prior ICU hospitalization at a non-UCH facility.
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
300 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No
Biospecimen retention
Samples without dna

Groups and cohorts

  • Adult ICU patients with respiratory problem

    Adult medical ICU patients admitted to the University of Colorado Hospital for a primary respiratory problem, and who are expected to require ICU care ≥48 hrs.

    Other: Characterize alcohol and drug use

  • Intubated Adult ICU patients with respiratory failure

    A subset of subjects, adult medical ICU patients with respiratory failure (due to underlying lung pathology) and who require endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation.

    Other: Characterize alcohol and drug use

Interventions

  • OtherCharacterize alcohol and drug use

    Characterize alcohol and drug use in patients newly admitted to the medical ICU service, who are expected to stay in the ICU for greater than 48 hours. The investigators will collect blood, exhaled breath condensate, urine and hair samples over the first 10 days of hospitalization. A select subset of subjects will have bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) obtained.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Prevalence of alcohol use disorders (AUDs)

    Among medical ICU (MICU) patients who remain in ICU greater than or equal to 48 hours: Prevalence of alcohol use disorders (AUDs), drug use disorders (DUDs), their combination (both), or no AUD/DUDs. Absolute value, and change over 7 days, in serum/urine/exhaled breath condensate/hair cortisol, corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), adenovirus proteinase (AVP), and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither. 3 Month and 6 Month follow up were added to this outcome measure via a protocol amendment after study-start.

    Time frame: prevalence, absolute value and change over 7 days, 3 Month follow up, 6 Month follow up

  2. Incidence and etiology of respiratory failure, stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither

    Among medical ICU (MICU) patients who develop respiratory failure: Incidence and etiology of respiratory failure, stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither. Length of time on mechanical ventilation stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither. Inflammatory profile of BAL stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither: BAL cell count and differential, Pro-inflammatory BAL cytokines; CCL5, TNFa, interferon-gamma (IFNg), interleukin (IL-1b), interleukin (IL-6). Evidence of oxidative stress in BAL (GSH/glutathione disulfide (GSSG) ratio, pH). Alveolar macrophage activation, degree of apoptosis, and inflammatory cytokine production. Confirm in non-invasively collected samples. Development of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither; Berlin criteria, Lung injury score.

    Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 17 days

  3. Incidence and etiology of respiratory failure, stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither: Month 3

    Among medical ICU (MICU) patients who develop respiratory failure: Incidence and etiology of respiratory failure, stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither. Length of time on mechanical ventilation stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither. Inflammatory profile of BAL stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither: BAL cell count and differential, Pro-inflammatory BAL cytokines; CCL5, TNFa, interferon-gamma (IFNg), interleukin (IL-1b), interleukin (IL-6). Evidence of oxidative stress in BAL (GSH/glutathione disulfide (GSSG) ratio, pH). Alveolar macrophage activation, degree of apoptosis, and inflammatory cytokine production. Confirm in non-invasively collected samples. Development of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither; Berlin criteria, Lung injury score. 3 Month and 6 Month follow up were added to this outcome measure via a protocol amendment after study-start.

    Time frame: 3 Month follow up

  4. Incidence and etiology of respiratory failure, stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither: Month 6

    Among medical ICU (MICU) patients who develop respiratory failure: Incidence and etiology of respiratory failure, stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither. Length of time on mechanical ventilation stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither. Inflammatory profile of BAL stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither: BAL cell count and differential, Pro-inflammatory BAL cytokines; CCL5, TNFa, interferon-gamma (IFNg), interleukin (IL-1b), interleukin (IL-6). Evidence of oxidative stress in BAL (GSH/glutathione disulfide (GSSG) ratio, pH). Alveolar macrophage activation, degree of apoptosis, and inflammatory cytokine production. Confirm in non-invasively collected samples. Development of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) stratified by AUD/DUD/both/neither; Berlin criteria, Lung injury score. 3 Month and 6 Month follow up were added to this outcome measure via a protocol amendment after study-start.

    Time frame: 6 Month follow up

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 8, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02299921
Lead sponsor
University of Colorado, Denver
Collaborators
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 24, 2014
Start date
Nov 2014
Primary completion
Apr 30, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 30, 2029 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 8, 2024

Study contacts

Ellen L Burnham, MD
Contact
ellen.burnham@ucdenver.edu
303-724-6078
Ellen L Burnham, MD
principal investigator · University of Colorado, Denver

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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