ICU Nutrition Study Bern

Phase 4

Completed

• Conditions: Starvation; Critical Illness; Enteral Nutrition
• Interventions: Other: Data Collection; Other: Nutritional management protocol

• Registration Number: NCT00574431
• Lead Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2007-12-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-12-14
• Study First Posted: 2007-12-17
• Study Start: 2008-02
• Primary Completion: 2009-03
• Study Completion: 2009-03
• Status Verified: 2011-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-07-13
• Last Update Posted: 2015-07-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Observation	Data Collection	Observation
Nutritional management protocol	Nutritional management protocol	Collection of patient data after implementation of a nutritional management protocol

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Energy delivered (%of caloric target) before and after introducing the nutritional management protocol.	During ICU stay
Start of enteral feeding after ICU admission	During ICU stay
Protein delivered (% of caloric target) before and after introducing the nutritional management protocol	During ICU stay

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Hospital mortality	During hospital stay
use of antibiotics (days)	During ICU stay
rate of accurately defined infections	During ICU stay
ICU mortality	During ICU stay
length of ICU stay	During ICU stay
length of hospital stay	During hospital stay