Phase III Randomized Study of Lucinactant in Full Term Newborn Infants With Meconium Aspiration Syndrome

Lucinactant suspension was administered as 10 mg total phospholipid (TPL)/mL, by bronchoalveolar lavage within 90 minutes of randomization. The dose was determined based on the infant's body weight such that the total dose was 16 mL/kg for each of the 2 lavage procedures and 32 mL/kg overall. Infants received 2 doses of lucinactant. Each dose consisted of separate lavage procedures for each lung within 15 minutes (up to 60 minutes) of each other.

The Standard Care (SC) group received therapies including, but not limited to, the use of oxygen, controlled mechanical ventilation (CMV), sedation, paralysis, vasopressors, and/or alkalinization. The use of adjunctive therapies (namely: high frequency oscillatory ventilation, high frequency jet ventilation, bolus surfactant, inhaled nitric oxide, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, or systemic corticosteroids) were not included in SC