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NCT Number: NCT00574431

ICU Nutrition Study Bern

Nutritional treatment has become an essential component of the management of critically ill, due to better knowledge about positive impact of nutritional support. Malnutrition among ICU patients is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, length of stay (LOS) and therefore higher costs.Several studies however suggest, that early implementation of nutritional support is associated with improved clinical outcome, shorter LOS, and decreased infection rates. One of the objectives of this study is to determine if an nutrition protocol can improve the delivery of enteral tube feeding in the ICU.

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Key information

Conditions

Critical Illness Disease Attributes Enteral Nutrition Malnutrition Nutrition Disorders Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Starvation

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 4

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Exclusion criteria

  • <18 years of age
  • stay less than 72 hours on ICU
  • die within 72h after admission
  • patients admitted for palliative care

Treatment and study plan

Data Collection

Other

Collection of patient data before implementation of a nutritional management protocol

Nutritional management protocol

Other

Collection of patient data after implementation of a nutritional management protocol

Primary outcomes

  1. Energy delivered (%of caloric target) before and after introducing the nutritional management protocol.

    Time frame: During ICU stay

  2. Protein delivered (% of caloric target) before and after introducing the nutritional management protocol

    Time frame: During ICU stay

  3. Start of enteral feeding after ICU admission

    Time frame: During ICU stay

Secondary outcomes

  1. ICU mortality

    Time frame: During ICU stay

  2. Hospital mortality

    Time frame: During hospital stay

  3. length of ICU stay

    Time frame: During ICU stay

  4. length of hospital stay

    Time frame: During hospital stay

  5. use of antibiotics (days)

    Time frame: During ICU stay

  6. rate of accurately defined infections

    Time frame: During ICU stay

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Other

Collaborators

  • Abbott Nutrition

Registry information

Official study title

Implementation of an Evidence-based Nutritional Management Protocol in Critically Ill Patients:Does Clinical Outcome Improve?

Important dates

Study start
2008
Primary completion
2009
Study completion
2009
First posted
Dec 17, 2007
Registry last updated
Jul 14, 2015

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