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

NCT04355767.

Study name Convalescent plasma to limit coronavirus associated complications: a randomized double‐blind, phase 2 study comparing the efficacy and safety of high‐titer anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 plasma vs. placebo in emergency room patients
Methods
  • Trial design: RCT

  • Sample size: 206

  • Setting: patients presenting to ED

  • Country: USA

  • Language: English

  • Number of centres: 1

Participants
  • Inclusion criteria

    • Age ≥ 18 years old

    • Patients requiring clinical evaluation in the ED but who do not require hospital admission

    • Patients who are within 14 days since the onset of COVID‐19 symptoms and are confirmed to have the disease via COVID‐19 SARS‐CoV‐2 RT‐PCR testing or rapid RNA assay

    • Patient agrees to storage of specimens for future testing

  • Exclusion criteria

    • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding

    • Received pooled immunoglobulin in the past 30 days

    • Contraindication to transfusion or history of prior reactions to transfusion blood products

Interventions
  • CP therapy or hyperimmune globulin therapy: CP

  • Details of CP:

    • type of plasma: CP, other details not provided

    • volume: 200‐600 mL

    • number of doses:1‐2

    • antibody‐titre: > 1:80

    • pathogen inactivated or not: NR

  • Treatment details, including time of plasma therapy (e.g. early stage of disease): within 14 days' onset of disease

  • For studies including a control group: comparator (type): normal plasma 

  • Concomitant therapy: NR

  • Treatment cross‐overs: none

Outcomes
  • Primary study outcome: time to disease progression

  • Primary review outcomes

    • All‐cause mortality at hospital discharge: NR

    • Time to death: NR

  • Secondary review outcomes

    • 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): NR

    • Number of participants with SAEs

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

    • 30‐day and 90‐day mortality: NR

    • Admission on the ICU: NR

    • Length of stay on the ICU: NR

    • Time to discharge from hospital: NR

    • QoL: NR

  • Additional outcomes

    • Time to disease progression (time frame: 15 days)

    • Change in symptom severity over time (time frame: 15 days)

Starting date May 2020
Contact information Study team; 650‐724‐7186; jcunning@stanford.edu   
Notes
  • Recruitment status: not yet recruiting 

  • Prospective completion date: December 2022

  • Sponsor/funding: Stanford University