Phase 2/3 study of intravenous thrombolysis and hypothermia for acute treatment of ischemic stroke (ICTuS 2/3)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The ICTuS trial showed feasibility of endovascular hypothermia for acute ischemic stroke [ 1 ]; ICTuS L confirmed safety and feasibility of endovascular hypothermia during thrombolysis [ 2 ]. The ICTuS 2/3 study seeks to determine whether the combination of thrombolysis and hypothermia is superior to thrombolysis alone for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. A phase 2 study will include 450 patients to assess the safety of various protocol changes, to demonstrate sufficient recruitment, and to allow an interim analysis for futility. If pre-specified milestones are achieved the study will be enlarged to a 1,800-patient phase 3 efficacy study. This is a prospective, randomized, single-blind, multicenter phase 2/3 study. We aim to include ischemic stroke patients treated within 3 hours of symptom onset with IV tPA (according to FDA or EMEA protocol), NIHSS ≥7 and ≤20, age 22 to 80. Patients are randomly assigned to either hypothermia permissively targeted to 33°C or normothermia. Favorable outcome is defined as a 90-day Modified Rankin score (mRS) of 0 or 1. Secondary outcome measures are: 90-day NIHSS, Barthel Index (BI), mortality, shift analysis of the mRS, global odds ratio of mRS, BI, NIHSS, incidence of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage and 90-day Montreal Cognitive Assessment. An interim analysis for futility is planned near the end of phase 2. In addition to futility, analyses will assess the frequency of target temperature reached within 6 hours from symptom, pneumonia rate, safety profile of iced saline infusion and study-wide average enrollment rate. The study team initiated 11 study sites in the USA and two in Europe. Enrolment began in December 2010. Currently, 37 subjects are enrolled. A full DSMB review of experience to date allowed the study to continue enrollment. A safety review after the first 50 patients is expected in late 2012. ICTuS 2/3 is the largest trial of endovascular hypothermia for acute stroke currently running. There appear to be no safety or feasibility concerns.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".