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Economics of Diarrhoea in Intensive Care Unit

NCT01922570 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 305

Last updated 2013-08-14

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Summary

Enteral nutrition (EN) is the first choice route for nutritional support in ICU patients with a functioning digestive tract. Nevertheless, EN alone is often associated with digestive intolerance, including diarrhoea. In case of diarrhoea, EN is often reduced or discontinued, resulting in insufficient energy and protein intakes and increase complications rate in ICU patients. Diarrhoea is more frequent in ICU patients receiving EN that in those without EN or on Parenteral nutrition (PN). This difference is likely to be related to the level of EN administration needed to optimize the coverage of nutritional needs at a time when the gut has reduced absorptive capacity. Diarrhoea is suspected to have a negative economic impact on global cost, because the management of patients with diarrhoea is time-consuming for the nurses and all medical staff, it requires investigations (water and electrolytes balances, microbiology investigations, etc.) and treatments (anti-diarrhoeal drugs, antibiotics, etc). However, the economic impact of diarrhoea related to EN or the combination of EN and PN has never been evaluated in the ICU setting.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

nutrition

comparion of enteral versus enteral and supplemental parenteral nutrition

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Geneva

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claude Pichard, MD · University Hospital, Geneva

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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