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Evaluation of Nutritional Practices in the Critical Care

NCT03634943 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 642

Last updated 2022-03-23

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Summary

Background: The adequacy of the artificial Nutritional Support (NS) in the critical care patient has implications in morbidity and prognosis. Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are an important tool for healthcare professionals in their daily practice and a method of consultation for the correct treatment of patients. Also, the evidence remains low and there are important controversies regarding the NS in the critical care patient.

Hypothesis: The NS generates great controversy in the professionals involved in the care of critical care patients due to the contradictory results in literature. Despite this, the CPG should serve to standardize the treatment of patients and provide a better adherence to current knowledge in this setting. The importance of NS is underestimated and there is a need to perform proper evaluation of the impact of nutrition.

Objectives: To evaluate and analyze NS practices in critically ill patients in different ICUs and assess the adherence to CPGs. To evaluate the relationship of nutrition and outcomes in the ICU.

Methodology: Prospective multicenter observational study. Collection of variables from different participating ICUs and the characteristics of the NS of the different admitted patients. Monitoring of nutritional practices and complications. Evaluation of outcomes (e.g. mortality, ICU complications, etc.) with NS.

Expected results: Better understanding of the NS and its impact on morbidity and mortality; development of strategies to reduce low adherence to CPGs, improving the quality of care associated with this field in critical care patients; obtain clinical information that will serve as a basis for conducting intervention studies.

Conditions

  • Nutritional Support
  • Intensive Care Unit
  • Critical Illness

Interventions

OTHER

Patients with Nutritional Support

Evaluation of Enteral Nutrition or Parenteral Nutrition or both administered to the patients needing artificial Nutritional Support

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Arnau de Vilanova

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Teodoro Grau-Carmona, Ph.D. · Hospital 12 de Octubre

  • Lluís Servia-Goixart, Ph.D. · Hospital Arnau de Vilanova / Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida) Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida

  • Juan Carlos Lopez-Delgado, Ph.D · Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-04-23
Primary Completion
2018-09-15
Completion
2022-03-22

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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