Renin-guided Hemodynamic Management in Patients With Shock

NCT ID: NCT05898126

Last Updated: 2025-08-06

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

800 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-01-27

Study Completion Date

2027-07-28

Brief Summary

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Shock is a major risk factor for mortality among patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Since various hemodynamic strategies uniformly delivered to patients with shock have failed to improve clinically relevant outcomes, individualized approaches for shock supported by robust evidence are required. This study will be a prospective, multicenter, parallel-group, single-blind, randomized controlled trial. The investigators will randomly assign 800 critically ill patients requiring norepinephrine infusion to the renin-guided or usual care groups. The investigators hypothesize that renin-guided hemodynamic management, compared to usual care, can reduce a composite of mortality and acute kidney injury (AKI) progression in patients requiring vasopressor support.

Detailed Description

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Shock is a common cause of death among patients admitted to intensive care units. Acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently occurs in patients with shock (3, 4). Maintaining adequate perfusion pressure and oxygen delivery is crucial in the hemodynamic management of shock (5). Several randomized controlled trials have evaluated the effect of various hemodynamic protocols treating shock patients with a "one size fits all" approach. However, such protocols did not reduce mortality (6-8). The task force of the surviving sepsis campaign identified the personalization of sepsis resuscitation as a research priority (9). Moreover, a large RCT showed that personalizing blood pressure targets reduced the risk of postoperative organ dysfunction in patients undergoing major surgery (10). These findings suggest that applying individualized hemodynamic strategy may optimize shock treatment and potentially improve outcomes (11).

Recent studies have investigated renin as a novel marker of tissue hypoperfusion in critically ill patients. While serum lactate level has been the most common and validated marker for tissue hypoperfusion (12), several studies are now suggesting that renin may predict mortality better than lactate in critically ill patients (13, 14). Notably, relative renin increase is associated with adverse clinical outcomes and shock reversal has been shown to decrease renin concentration (15).

The investigators aim to perform the Randomized Evaluation of persoNalized hemodynamIc maNagement based on serum renin concentration (RENIN) trial to test the hypothesis that renin-guided hemodynamic management can reduce a composite of mortality and acute kidney injury (AKI) progression during the hospital stay in patients requiring vasopressors compared with usual care.

Conditions

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Shock

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Clinical trial in which patients affected by shock, randomly receive either renin-guided hemodynamic management or usual care.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Single blind trial. Participants will be blinded to treatment allocation.

Study Groups

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Renin-guided hemodynamic management

We will measure serum renin values every six hours. If the measured renin concentration increases by more that 20% compared with the last value, the target mean arterial pressure (MAP) will be elevated to 75-80 mmHg. If the subsequent renin level is still rising, the target MAP will be further raised to 85-90 mmHg and the addition of inotropes will be considered. If the first subsequent renin level decreases or increases by ≤20%, the target MAP will be kept at 75-80 mmHg. If the renin level at the subsequent measurement after reaching the highest step of management protocol is still increasing, a failure of the intervention will be declared, the target MAP will return to 65-70 mmHg. If renin level further decreases or increases ≤20% for two consecutive measurements, we will downgrade the target MAP to the previous step.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Renin-guided hemodynamic management

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

If normalization of renin levels is achieved (values within the normal laboratory range), we will continue with usual care according to local protocols.

Usual care

Patients in the usual care group will be managed according to standard of practice at each participating center.

Group Type SHAM_COMPARATOR

Usual care

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Standard of care

Interventions

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Renin-guided hemodynamic management

If normalization of renin levels is achieved (values within the normal laboratory range), we will continue with usual care according to local protocols.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Usual care

Standard of care

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* ≥18 years old
* Admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU)
* Requiring norepinephrine infusion at any dose to maintain a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of ≥65 mmHg after initial fluid resuscitation
* Expected to stay in the ICU for at least 24 hours
* Written informed consent from the patient him-/herself or the patient's next of kin as requested by the ethics committee.

Exclusion Criteria

* Pregnancy
* Refused informed consent
* Current enrollment into another randomized controlled trial that does not allow concomitant enrollment
* Requiring vasopressors for \>12 hours before the enrollment
* Renal failure with an imminent need for renal replacement therapy (RRT)
* Intention to use RRT by clinical judgment despite lack of urgent clinical indication
* AKI stage 2 and 3 at enrollment according to the KDIGO criteria
* Prior enrollment in this study
* Severe liver disease (Child-Pugh score \>7 points)
* Chronic kidney disease (CKD) equal to or worse than CKD stage IV (eGFR \<30 mL/min/1.73 m2)
* History of kidney transplant
* Any condition explicitly requiring a higher or lower blood pressure target according to clinical judgment
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Giovanni Landoni

MD, Full Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University Hospital Dubrava

Dubrava, , Croatia

Site Status RECRUITING

Ospedale Mater Domini

Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele

Milan, , Italy

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Croatia Italy

Central Contacts

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Alessandro Belletti, MD

Role: CONTACT

0039 0226436151

Nicola Buzzatti, MD

Role: CONTACT

0039 0226436151

Facility Contacts

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Nikola Bradic, MD

Role: primary

Andrea Bruni, MD

Role: primary

Alessandro Belletti, MD

Role: primary

0226436158 ext. +39

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Other Identifiers

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GR-2021-12375069

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

RENIN - 141/INT/2022

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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