The EVARREST® Pediatric Mild or Moderate Liver and Soft Tissue Bleeding Study

Last updated: March 18, 2025
Sponsor: Ethicon, Inc.
Overall Status: Completed

Phase

3

Condition

Hemorrhage

Treatment

EVARREST® Fibrin Sealant Patch

Clinical Study ID

NCT03255174
BIOS-16-001
  • Ages 28-17
  • All Genders
  • Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and hemostatic effectiveness of EVARREST as an adjunct to controlling mild to moderate soft hepatic parenchyma or soft tissue bleeding during open hepatic, abdominal, pelvic, retroperitoneal, and thoracic (non-cardiac) surgery in pediatric population.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Pediatric subjects aged ≥28 days (≥1 month) to <18 years, requiring non-emergentopen hepatic, abdominal, retroperitoneal, pelvic or thoracic (non-cardiac) surgicalprocedures; i) A minimum of 4 subjects to be enrolled will be aged ≥28 days to <1year

  2. The subject's parent/legal guardian must be willing to give permission for thesubject to participate in the trial, and provide written Informed Consent for thesubject. In addition, assent must be obtained from pediatric subjects who possessthe intellectual and emotional ability to comprehend the concepts involved in thetrial. If the pediatric subject is not able to provide assent (due to age, maturityand/or inability to intellectually and/or emotionally comprehend the trial), theparent/legal guardian's written Informed Consent for the subject will be acceptablefor the subject to be included in the study.

  3. Presence of an appropriate mild or moderate bleeding soft tissue or hepaticparenchyma Target Bleeding Site (TBS) identified intra-operatively by the surgeon;

  4. Ability to firmly press trial treatment at TBS until 4 minutes after TBSidentification.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects with known intolerance to blood products or to one of the components of thestudy product or is unwilling to receive blood products;

  2. Female subjects, of childbearing age (i.e. adolescent), who are pregnant or nursing;

  3. Subject is currently participating or plan to participate in any otherinvestigational device or drug study without prior approval from the Sponsor;

  4. Subjects who are known, current alcohol and/or drug abusers

  5. Subjects admitted for trauma surgery

  6. Subjects with any pre or intra-operative findings identified by the surgeon that maypreclude conduct of the study procedure

  7. Subjects that have received a COVID-19 vaccine either 4 weeks prior to surgery orscheduled to receive COVID-19 vaccine within the 30-day follow-up period

  8. Subject with TBS in an actively infected field (Class III Contaminated or Class IVDirty or Infected)

  9. TBS is from large defects in arteries or veins where the injured vascular wallrequires repair with maintenance of vessel patency and which would result inpersistent exposure of EVARREST to blood flow and pressure during healing andabsorption of the product

  10. TBS with major arterial bleeding requiring suture or mechanical ligation;

  11. Bleeding site is in, around, or in proximity to foramina in bone, or areas of bonyconfine.

Study Design

Total Participants: 35
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: EVARREST® Fibrin Sealant Patch
Phase: 3
Study Start date:
March 20, 2018
Estimated Completion Date:
February 14, 2025

Study Description

This is an open-label, multicenter, single-arm study evaluating the safety and effectiveness of EVARREST in controlling mild or moderate bleeding in hepatic parenchyma or soft tissue for which standard methods of achieving hemostasis are ineffective or impractical.

Eligible subjects will be treated with EVARREST. Subjects will be followed post-operatively through discharge and at 30 days (+/-14 days) post-surgery.

At least thirty-five pediatric subjects with an appropriate mild or moderate bleeding target bleeding site (TBS) will be enrolled in this study. The age of the subjects enrolled in the study will be from 1 month to less than (<) 18 years. This will include a minimum of 4 subjects aged 1 month (greater than or equal to [>=] 28 days from birth) to <1 year.

Connect with a study center

  • Birmingham Chrildren's Hospital

    Birmingham, B4 6NH
    United Kingdom

    Site Not Available

  • Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP
    United Kingdom

    Site Not Available

  • Southampton University Hospital

    Southampton, SO16 6YD
    United Kingdom

    Site Not Available

  • University of Alabama Hospital

    Birmingham, Alabama 35222
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Children's National Medical Center

    Washington, District of Columbia 20010
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Nemours Children's Specialty Care

    Jacksonville, Florida 32207
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University of Chicago Medicine

    Chicago, Illinois 60637
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University of Kentucky

    Lexington, Kentucky 40536
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital

    Baltimore, Maryland 21287
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai

    New York, New York 10029
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Nationwide Children's Hospital

    Columbus, Ohio 43205
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Univesity of Utah

    Salt Lake City, Utah 84113
    United States

    Site Not Available

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