Impact of daily energy shortage announcements on ICU calorie supply: a pragmatic trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Malnutrition; Starvation

• Registration Number: RBR-2sypq9j
• Lead Sponsor: Hospital Geral de Fortaleza

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2022-02-28
• Study Start: 2022-07-07
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Data analysis completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

Adults and seniors, aged 18 years or over; both sexes; being on mechanical ventilation or being intubated within 48 hours of admission; being receiving or starting to receive enteral nutritional therapy within 48 hours of admission; present a diagnosis that possibly requires enteral nutritional therapy for more than 7 days

Exclusion Criteria

Subjected to supplemental or total parenteral nutritional therapy in the initial 7 days; submitted to major digestive surgeries; history of short bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, previous recurrent record of diarrhea; admitted with major digestive bleeds

Study & Design

• Study Type: Intervention
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
There was no significant difference in the average accumulated caloric deficit between the groups, considering a normal distribution, from the finding of a value of p above 0.05.