Impacts of Nutritional Status before surgery on recovery after surgery.

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: General Surgery

• Registration Number: CTRI/2017/08/009222
• Lead Sponsor: Meenakshi Garg

Brief Summary

In most hospitals, its is observed that if pre-nutritional status is not maintained due to various factors like socio-economic status ,deficiencies ,like anemia,low protein intake, malnutrition (PEM  or obesity ),co -morbid conditions ,already existing immuno-compromised condition which decreases food intake etc,then it will affect the post -surgical outcome and the length of  stay.

The Objectives of this study are- To assess the complete Pre-surgical nutritional status .To check the progress or recovery of the Post-surgical patient i.e., the impact of malnutrition, infection and morbidity on the length of the stay.To give the education material at the end of the study.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 2017-01-08
• Study Start: 2017-05-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

Patients undergoing elective surgery from KH/ KMC.

Exclusion Criteria

• 1)Patients who are unable to give information due to the severity of the condition.
• 2)Age group below 18 years.
• 3)Patients who immuno-compromised.
• 4)Trauma, accident and minor surgeries.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To assess impact of the pre-surgical nutritional status on post-surgical convalescence.	General surgery patients- first visit for initial data collection before surgery(pre-nutritional status),second visit after surgery (post surgery outcome)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Kasturba Hospital; 🇮🇳 Udupi, KARNATAKA, India

Kasturba Hospital

🇮🇳Udupi, KARNATAKA, India

Suhana S Shriyan

Principal investigator

9844629563

suhanashriyan9@gmail.com