Antithrombotic Therapy to Ameliorate Complications of COVID-19 (ATTACC) (ATTACC)
COVID-19, Pneumonia
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for COVID-19
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Patients ≥18 years of age providing (possibly through a substitute decision maker) informed consent who require hospitalization anticipated to last ≥72 hours, for microbiologically-confirmed COVID-19, enrolled < 72 hours of hospital admission or of COVID-19 confirmation
• If the patient is already hospitalized and the COVID-19 diagnosis is due to an outbreak or an incidental finding, then enrollment can occur within 72 hours of a clinical syndrome attributable to COVID-19 that requires continued hospitalization (e.g. new or worsening oxygen requirements or acute kidney injury) which is further anticipated to extend the hospital admission by an additional 72 hours from randomization.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients admitted to an ICU AND receiving organ support (i.e. high flow nasal oxygen, receiving non-invasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or are requiring vasopressor/inotrope)
- Patients for whom the intent is to not use pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis
- Active bleeding
Risk factors for bleeding, including:
- intracranial surgery or stroke within 3 months;
- history of intracerebral arteriovenous malformation;
- cerebral aneurysm or mass lesions of the central nervous system;
- intracranial malignancy
- history of intracranial bleeding
- history of bleeding diatheses (e.g., hemophilia)
- history of gastrointestinal bleeding within previous 3 months
- thrombolysis within the previous 7 days
- presence of an epidural or spinal catheter
- recent major surgery <14 days
- uncontrolled hypertension (sBP >200 mmHg, dBP >120 mmHg)
- other physician-perceived contraindications to anticoagulation
- Platelet count <50 x10^9/L, INR >2.0, or baseline aPTT >50 (if available per SOC testing)
- Hemoglobin <80 g/L (to minimize the likelihood of requiring red blood cell transfusion if potential bleeding were to occur)
- Acute or subacute bacterial endocarditis
- History of heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) or other heparin allergy including hypersensitivity
- Current use of dual antiplatelet therapy
- Patients with an independent indication for therapeutic anticoagulation
- Patients in whom imminent demise is anticipated and there is no commitment to active ongoing intervention
- Anticipated transfer to another hospital that is not a study site within 72 hours
- Enrollment in other trials related to anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy
Sites / Locations
- Emory University Hospital Midtown
- University of Chicago
- Ochsner Clinic
- Maine Medical Center
- Henry Ford University
- Beaumont Hospital
- Mayo Clinic
- Saint Louis University School of Medicine/Saint Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Cooper University Health Care
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center
- Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Santa Casa de Misericordia de Itabuna
- Hospital Unimed do Cariri
- Instituto Goiano de Oncologia e Hematologia - INGOH
- Centro de Pesquisas Clínicas Humap - UFMS
- Hospital Felício Rocho
- Clinica de Campo Grande S/A
- Unimed Campo Grande
- Hospital Agamenon Magalhaes
- Hospital das Clinicas da UFPR
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
- Parana Medical Research Center
- Hospital Sao Vicente de Paulo
- Hospital Universitario Pedro Ernesto
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
- Instituto de Medicina Vascular
- AngioCor Blumenau
- Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina
- Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica de Campinas
- Praxis Pesquisa Medica
- Santa Casa de Votuporanga
- Casa de Saúde Santa Marcelina
- Instituto de Molestias Cardio Vasculares de Tatui
- Hospital 9 de Julho
- Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
- Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas
- Instituto do Coração do Estado de São Paulo
- Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Hospital Albert Einstein
- Victoria General Hospital
- Health Sciences Center Winnipeg
- Grace General Hospital
- St. Boniface General Hospital
- Hamilton Health Sciences
- St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
- Hôpital Montfort
- The Ottawa Hospital
- University Health Network
- McGill University Health Centre
- Centre Hospitalier de l'université de Montréal (CHUM)
- Jewish General Hospital
- CHU de Quebec-University Laval
- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (CRIUCPQ)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke
- Regina General Hospital
- Hospital de Infectolog´ñia Centro Médico Nacional La Raza
- Hospital General Regional 1 Carlos MacGregor Sánchez Navarro
- Hospital General regional 2 El Marqués
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Investigational arm
Control arm
Participants randomized to the investigational arm will receive therapeutic anticoagulation for 14 days (or until hospital discharge or liberation from supplemental oxygen >24 hours if previously required, whichever comes first) with heparin, with preference for subcutaneous low molecular weight heparin (enoxaparin preferred, although dalteparin or tinzaparin are also acceptable, as available) if no contraindication is present; alternatively, intravenous unfractionated heparin infusion may be used.
Participants will receive usual care of thromboprophylactic dose anticoagulation according to local practice.