Does delaying starting protein benefit late preterm and term surgical newborns?

Not Applicable

• Conditions: ICU Dependency; NICU Dependency; Reproductive Health and Childbirth - Complications of newborn; Diet and Nutrition - Other diet and nutrition disorders; Inflammatory and Immune System - Other inflammatory or immune system disorders; Infection - Other infectious diseases

• Registration Number: ACTRN12622001297718
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Adelaide

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2022-10-06
• Last Update Posted: 10 October 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 106

Inclusion Criteria

Infants born >34 weeks gestation (inborn or outborn).
Confirmation of a surgical diagnosis requiring operative intervention.
The need for Parenteral nutrition.
Informed parental consent.

Exclusion Criteria

Expected death within 24 hours.
Re-admission to NICU following previous randomisation.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Duration of NICU dependency. This data will be colected from the participants medical records and reported as the crude number of NICU-stay days and time to live discharge from NICU, to account for mortality as a competing risk. The ‘time to discharge’ will be defined as the ‘time to readiness for discharge from NICU’, defined as lack of need for mechanical ventilatory or hemodynamic support or invasive blood pressure monitoring. [NICU discharge ]