A clinical trial to study the route of enteral feeding (nasogastric versus nasojejunal) in acute pancreatitis
Not Applicable
Completed
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2009/091/000948
- Lead Sponsor
- ICMR
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
Inclusion criteria
1.Patients with SAP is defined as acute abdominal pain requiring admission to hospital and associated with
Raised serum amylase >3 time upper normal limit
US or CT evidence of SAP
2.Only patients with SAP will be included as defined by
APACHE II score > 8
CT score > 6
Presence of organ failure as defined by
a)Shock: SBP< 90mmHg
b)Pulmonary insufficiency: PaO2 <60mmHg
c)Renal failure: serum creatinine 2mg/dl
d)Gastrointestinal bleeding > 500ml/24hr
Exclusion Criteria
a)A delay between onset of pain and presentation to the hospital of more than 4 week
b)Patient already on oral feeds at the time of presentation
c)Patients undergoing surgery before the completion of 7 days of refeeding schedule.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method &#61656;Clinical outcome would include clinical infectionsTimepoint: weekly during hospitalisation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method C-reactive proteins,<br>prealbumin,endoxoxemia,hospital stayTimepoint: baseline and after one week of intervention