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. 2020 Jul 10;2020(7):CD013600. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013600.pub2

NCT04385199.

Study name The use of convalescent plasma for patients hospitalized with COVID‐19 disease
Methods
  • Trial design: open, parallel, RCT

  • Sample size: 30

  • Setting: inpatient

  • Country: USA

  • Language: English

  • Number of centres: 1 

Participants
  • Inclusion criteria

    • age > 18 with ≥ 1 of the following:

      • dyspnoea respiratory rate ≥ 30 breaths/min

      • Oxygen saturation ≤ 93% PaO2/FiO2

      • < 300 bilateral airspace opacities on chest radiograph at 24‐48 h

  • Exclusion criteria

    • Acute myocardial infarction in past 30 days

    • Acute stroke in past 30 days

    • VV ECMO VA ECMO

Interventions
  • Intervention(s): conventional treatment and CP therapy

  • Details of CP:

    • Type of plasma: ABO‐compatible CP

    • Volume: 200 mL

    • Number of doses: 1

    • Antibody‐titre: NR

    • Pathogen inactivated: NR

  • Treatment details, including time of plasma therapy (e.g. early stage of disease): hospitalised patients 

  • Comparator: conventional treatment

  • Concomitant therapy: NR

  • Treatment cross‐overs: no

Outcomes
  • Primary study outcome: improvement in respiratory disease (time frame: days 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 28 post‐transfusion) 

    • For intubated participants improvement in PaO2/FiO2 

    • For non‐intubated participants time to intubation post‐transfusion

  • Primary review outcomes reported

    • All‐cause mortality at hospital discharge: NR

    • Time to death: NR

  • Secondary review outcomes reported

    • Number of participants with grade 3 and grade 4 AEs, including potential relationship between intervention and adverse reaction (e.g. TRALI, transfusion‐transmitted infection, TACO, TAD, acute transfusion reactions): yes 

    • Number of participants with SAEs: yes

    • Improvement of clinical symptoms, assessed through need for respiratory support at up to 7 days; 8‐15 days; 16‐30 days: yes

    • 30‐day and 90‐day mortality: NR

    • Admission on the ICU: yes

    • Length of stay on the ICU: yes 

    • Time to discharge from hospital: yes 

    • QoL: NR

  • Additional study outcomes: radiographic improvement (Time frame: 3, 28 days post transfusion)

Starting date 4 May 2020
Contact information Geneva Tatem, MD313‐587‐6775, gtatem1@hfhs.org
Notes
  • Recruitment status: recruiting

  • Prospective completion date: 1 August 2020

  • Sponsor/funding: Henry Ford Health System