Actively Recruiting

Phase 3
Age: 1Month - 17Years
All Genders
NCT03401398

Stress Hydrocortisone In Pediatric Septic Shock

Led by Jerry Zimmerman · Updated on 2025-10-30

500

Participants Needed

44

Research Sites

407 weeks

Total Duration

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Sponsors

J

Jerry Zimmerman

Lead Sponsor

E

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Collaborating Sponsor

AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

SHIPSS is a multi-institutional, prospective, controlled, randomized, double-blinded interventional trial that will examine the potential benefits and risks of adjunctive hydrocortisone prescribed for children with fluid and vasoactive-inotropic refractory septic shock. It is hypothesized that adjunctive hydrocortisone will significantly reduce the incidence of new and progressive organ dysfunction (primary outcome) and proportion of children with poor outcomes, defined as death or severely impaired health-related quality of life (HRQL) (secondary outcome), as assessed at 28 days following study enrollment (randomization).

CONDITIONS

Official Title

Stress Hydrocortisone In Pediatric Septic Shock

Who Can Participate

Age: 1Month - 17Years
All Genders

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Age at least 1 month (corrected gestational age ≥42 weeks) but less than 17 years and 8 months
  • Documented or strongly suspected infection at PICU admission or at septic shock onset
  • Surveillance cultures or microbial diagnostic tests obtained
  • At least one antimicrobial prescribed
  • Fever >38.5°C or <36.0°C, or abnormal white blood cell counts documented within 24 hours before screening
  • Receiving continuous infusion of vasoactive-inotropic agents to maintain blood pressure above age-appropriate target
  • Receiving two or more vasoactive-inotropic agents or epinephrine/norepinephrine infusion ≥0.10 mcg/kg/min for over 1 hour
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • All inclusion criteria present for more than 12 hours
  • Expected use of systemic corticosteroids for reasons other than septic shock
  • Received any systemic corticosteroids during sepsis treatment
  • Concurrent enrollment in a competing interventional clinical trial
  • Received etomidate or ketoconazole in past 48 hours
  • Steroids contraindicated (e.g. systemic fungal infection, cerebral malaria, strongyloides)
  • Known or suspected hypothalamic, pituitary, or adrenal disease or corticosteroid use indicating adrenal suppression
  • Not committed to full treatment and resuscitation by physician, care team, or guardians
  • Documented pregnancy
  • Previous enrollment in this study
  • Direct PICU admission with thermal burn and PICU stay less than 72 hours before meeting inclusion
  • (U.S. sites only) Patient in custody of U.S. protective services
  • Being evaluated for brain death
  • Vasoactive-inotropic agents prescribed only for conditions other than septic shock
  • Confirmed dengue fever

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 44 locations

1

University of Arizona Medical Centre

Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724

Actively Recruiting

2

Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027

Actively Recruiting

3

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - Oakland

Oakland, California, United States, 94609

Actively Recruiting

4

Children's Hospital of Orange County

Orange, California, United States, 92868

Actively Recruiting

5

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco

San Francisco, California, United States, 94143

Actively Recruiting

6

Nemours Children's Health

Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 19803

Actively Recruiting

7

University of Chicago, Comer Children's Hospital

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

Actively Recruiting

8

The University of Illinois at Chicago/OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois

Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61603

Actively Recruiting

9

University of Louisville, Norton Children's Hospital

Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202

Actively Recruiting

10

Boston Children's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

Actively Recruiting

11

Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Livingston, New Jersey, United States, 07039

Actively Recruiting

12

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229

Actively Recruiting

13

The Children's Hospital at Oklahoma University Medical Center

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73104

Actively Recruiting

14

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Children's Hospital

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033

Actively Recruiting

15

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38163

Not Yet Recruiting

16

Primary Children's Hospital

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84108

Actively Recruiting

17

Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105

Actively Recruiting

18

University of Wisconsin Health/American Family Children's Hospital

Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53792

Actively Recruiting

19

Santa Casa de Misericordia Da Bahia

Bahia, Brazil

Actively Recruiting

20

Hospital Jutta Batista - Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Actively Recruiting

21

Alberta Children's Hospital

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T3B 6A8

Actively Recruiting

22

BC Children's Hospital

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6H 3N1

Terminated

23

IWK Health Centre

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3K 6R8

Actively Recruiting

24

McMaster Children's Hospital

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 3Z5

Actively Recruiting

25

London Health Sciences Centre

London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5W9

Actively Recruiting

26

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 8L1

Actively Recruiting

27

Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1C5

Actively Recruiting

28

Montreal Children's Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H4A 3J1

Terminated

29

Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval

Québec, Quebec, Canada, G1V 4G2

Actively Recruiting

30

Royal University Hospital

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7K 1M6

Terminated

31

Rambam Health Care Campus

Haifa, Israel

Not Yet Recruiting

32

Hadassah University Medical Center, Ein Kerem

Jerusalem, Israel

Not Yet Recruiting

33

Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel

Petah Tikva, Israel

Not Yet Recruiting

34

Kobe Children's Hospital

Kobe, Japan

Actively Recruiting

35

Aichi Children's Health and Medical Center

Nagoya, Japan

Actively Recruiting

36

UKM Specialist Children's Hospital

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Not Yet Recruiting

37

University Malaya Medical Centre

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Actively Recruiting

38

Sarawak General Hospital

Kuching, Malaysia

Not Yet Recruiting

39

Shifa International Hospital

Islamabad, Pakistan

Actively Recruiting

40

Aga Khan University Hospital

Karachi, Pakistan

Actively Recruiting

41

King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Actively Recruiting

42

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Singapore, Singapore

Actively Recruiting

43

Vietnam National Children's Hospital

Hanoi, Vietnam

Actively Recruiting

44

City Children's Hospital

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Not Yet Recruiting

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Research Team

J

Jerry J Zimmerman, MD, PhD

CONTACT

K

Kusum Menon, MD, MSc

CONTACT

How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

QUADRUPLE

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Model

PARALLEL

Primary Purpose

TREATMENT

Number of Arms

2

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