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Clinical Trial
. 2023 Jan 24:380:e072313.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-072313.

Cerebral regional tissue Oxygen Saturation to Guide Oxygen Delivery in preterm neonates during immediate transition after birth (COSGOD III): multicentre randomised phase 3 clinical trial

Gerhard Pichler  1   2   3 , Katharina Goeral  4 , Marlene Hammerl  5 , Tina Perme  6 , Eugene M Dempsey  7 , Laila Springer  8 , Gianluca Lista  9 , Tomasz Szczapa  10 , Hans Fuchs  11 , Lukasz Karpinski  10 , Jenny Bua  12 , Alexander Avian  13 , Brenda Law  14   15 , Berndt Urlesberger  16   2   3 , Julia Buchmayer  4 , Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer  5 , Lilijana Kornhauser-Cerar  6 , Christoph E Schwarz  7 , Kerstin Gründler  8 , Ilaria Stucchi  9 , Bernhard Schwaberger  16   2   3 , Katrin Klebermass-Schrehof  4 , Georg M Schmölzer  14   15 ; COSGOD III study group
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Cerebral regional tissue Oxygen Saturation to Guide Oxygen Delivery in preterm neonates during immediate transition after birth (COSGOD III): multicentre randomised phase 3 clinical trial

Gerhard Pichler et al. BMJ. .

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Abstract

Objective: To investigate whether monitoring of cerebral tissue oxygen saturation using near infrared spectroscopy in addition to routine monitoring combined with defined treatment guidelines during immediate transition and resuscitation increases survival without cerebral injury of premature infants compared with standard care alone.

Design: Multicentre, multinational, randomised controlled phase 3 trial.

Setting: 11 tertiary neonatal intensive care units in six countries in Europe and in Canada.

Participants: 1121 pregnant women (<32 weeks' gestation) were screened prenatally. The primary outcome was analysed in 607 of 655 randomised preterm neonates: 304 neonates in the near infrared spectroscopy group and 303 in the control group.

Intervention: Preterm neonates were randomly assigned to either standard care (control group) or standard care plus monitoring of cerebral oxygen saturation with a dedicated treatment guideline (near infrared spectroscopy group) during immediate transition (first 15 minutes after birth) and resuscitation.

Main outcome measure: The primary outcome, assessed using all cause mortality and serial cerebral ultrasonography, was a composite of survival without cerebral injury. Cerebral injury was defined as any intraventricular haemorrhage or cystic periventricular leukomalacia, or both, at term equivalent age or before discharge.

Results: Cerebral tissue oxygen saturation was similar in both groups. 252 (82.9%) out of 304 neonates (median gestational age 28.9 (interquartile range 26.9-30.6) weeks) in the near infrared spectroscopy group survived without cerebral injury compared with 238 (78.5%) out of 303 neonates (28.6 (26.6-30.6) weeks) in the control group (relative risk 1.06, 95% confidence interval 0.98 to 1.14). 28 neonates died (near infrared spectroscopy group 12 (4.0%) v control group 16 (5.3%): relative risk 0.75 (0.33 to 1.70).

Conclusion: Monitoring of cerebral tissue oxygen saturation in combination with dedicated interventions in preterm neonates (<32 weeks' gestation) during immediate transition and resuscitation after birth did not result in substantially higher survival without cerebral injury compared with standard care alone. Survival without cerebral injury increased by 4.3% but was not statistically significant.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03166722.

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Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/ and declare: support from the Austrian Science Fund and the HRB Clinical Research Facility at the University of Cork for the submitted work, and from the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation facilitated by the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

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