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Status unknownNCT03888768Updated Nov 1, 2019

ProPBM : A Modified Patient Blood Management Protocol

An interventional study of MonoFer in Iron-deficiency, sponsored by Ministry of Health, Malaysia. Status unknown at 1 site in Malaysia. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-11-01.

Sponsored by Ministry of Health, Malaysia · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Oct 2019), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
180
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The introduction of a modified perioperative patient blood management protocol with intravenous iron intervention for iron deficiency anaemic patients would reduce the need for allogenic blood transfusion and reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality.

Read the detailed description

Patient blood management (PBM), refers to "the timely application of evidence based medical and surgical concepts designed to maintain haemoglobin concentration, optimise haemostasis and minimize blood loss in an effort to improve patient outcome.

PBM relies on three corresponding aspects:

  1. Optimising haemopoiesis,
  2. Minimising bleeding and blood loss
  3. Harnessing and optimising physiological tolerance of anaemia.

Therefore, this randomised control trial aims to study the effect of applying a modified patient blood management protocol on the perioperative allogenic blood transfusion incidence, mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing major surgery in gynaecology, intraabdominal surgery and orthopaedics comparing with current practice.

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Conditions studied

  • Iron-deficiency

Keywords

  • intravenous iron isomaltoside(monofer)
  • iron deficiency
  • anaemia
  • patient blood management
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In context

Anemia, Iron-Deficiency

644 studies on the registry are indexed under Anemia, Iron-Deficiency; 105 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 180 is above the median of 100 across 503 interventional studies indexed under Anemia, Iron-Deficiency.

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Lead sponsor

Ministry of Health, Malaysia is the lead sponsor of 27 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Undergoing major surgery in gynaecology, gastrointestinal surgery and orthopaedics
  • Major surgery defined as either Intrabdominal surgery or main joint surgery, Risk of blood loss >15% blood volume
  • Aged between 18 to 80 years of age
  • The patient must be willing and able to provide written informed consent for the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Allergy or known sensitivity to parenteral iron
  • Hypersensitivity to the active substance, Iron(III) Isomaltoside or any of its excipients listed in the summary of product characteristics
  • Patients with iron overload
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
180 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    ProPBM

    Pre-operative: patient will be screened for iron deficiency and anemia and administered IV monofer Intra-operative:IV tranexamic Acid 1gm will be administered at the beginning of surgery and blood transfusion triggered by Allowable blood loss Post-operative: IV Iron monofer will be given to those with estimated blood loss \>1L and subsequent post operative follow up till 6month

    Drug: MonoFer

  • No intervention
    Standard Care

    patient will received standard hospital practise

Interventions

  • DrugMonoFer

    Administration of IV Monofer will be given according to body weight as recommended by the drug manufacturer.

    Also known as: isomaltoside

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of perioperative allogenic blood transfusion.

    To assess the incidence of allogenic blood transfusion occurring within the total length of hospital stay within the same admission of a surgical procedure performed under general or regional anaesthesia

    Time frame: Participants will be followed from date of hospital entry until date of discharge up to 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in haemoglobin (Hb) concentrations from baseline

    To assess the extent of increase in preoperative hemoglobin levels(baseline) and hemoglobin level one day before surgery, after the administration of IV MonoFer in ProPBM arm

    Time frame: Preoperative basline and one day before surgery after MonoFer administration expected up to 2 weeks

  2. Quality of Life of patient

    To assess patient's quality of life using Short Form (12) Health Survey(SF-12) is a 36-item, patient-reported survey of patient health. The SF-36 consists of eight domain scaled scores, which are the weighted sums of the questions in their section. Each scale is directly transformed into a 0-100 scale on the assumption that each question carries equal weight. The lower the score the more disability. The higher the score the less disability.

    Time frame: preoperative (baseline), one month, six month

  3. Postoperative Morbidity

    To assess postoperative morbidity using Postoperative Morbidity Survey(POMS).Patients are assessed for diagnostic features in nine domains (pulmonary, infectious, renal, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neurological, haematological, wound and pain). For each domain, either presence or absence of morbidity is recorded on the basis of objective criteria.

    Time frame: Day one postoperative, postoperative one week,postoperative one month, postoperative six month

  4. Mortality rate

    To assess the incidence of mortality after surgery in both ProPBM arm and standard arm

    Time frame: Participants will be followed up expected till 6 months

  5. Total hospital stay

    Participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay

    Time frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 2 weeks

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • University Malaya Medical Centre, Jalan Universiti
    Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur 59100, Malaysia
    Recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 1, 2019, 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
NCT03888768
Lead sponsor
Ministry of Health, Malaysia
Collaborators
University of Malaya
Responsible party
Tan Jenq Uei (Trainee of Master of Anaesthesiology University of Malaya, Ministry of Health, Malaysia) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 25, 2019
Start date
Aug 1, 2019
Primary completion
Oct 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2021 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 1, 2019

Study contacts

Jenq Uei Tan
Contact
jenquei84@gmail.com
+60165213692
Kevin Ng
Contact
nivekng@gmail.com
+60122987708
Kevin Ng
principal investigator · UMMC

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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