New protocol aims to save more premature babies from severe complications
NCT ID NCT05248477
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a new care protocol (EXPRIM) for extremely preterm infants born between 22 and 26 weeks. The protocol involves early counseling, standardized steroid use, and team-based decisions. Researchers will compare survival without severe health problems in 2377 babies across multiple hospitals. The goal is to see if this organized approach improves outcomes compared to usual care.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- new care protocol (EXPRIM protocol)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could establish a better standard of care for extremely preterm infants, reducing severe complications like brain bleeding or lung disease.
- What could go wrong
- This is a large trial but tests a complex organizational change, not a drug. Results depend on how well hospitals adopt the protocol, and benefits may vary across centers.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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2,377 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jun 2022
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: Mothers: * women hospitalized between 22 and 26 weeks for risk of preterm delivery with a fetus alive or dead at admission and with a delivery between 22 and 26 completed weeks * understanding of the French language by the woman or in the immediate entourage in charge of the child. Children: all newborns (live- and stillborn) delivered between 22 and 26 weeks. Exclusion Criteria * women who object to the use of their routine perinatal data, * women giving birth before 22 weeks and after 26 completed weeks. * woman to legal protection (subject protected by law under guardianship or curatorship) * Women undergoing a termination of pregnancy (TOP) for severe congenital anomaly or psycho-social contexte
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hôpital Cochin
Paris, 75014, France
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