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Carbohydrate Loading and Elderly Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery

NCT05778487 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 128

Last updated 2023-03-21

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Summary

Carbohydrate loading, the consumption of carbohydrates prior to surgery, is an example of preoperative nutrition that has provided many benefits to surgical patients. Elderly patients (65 years of age and older) represent a large number of spine surgery recipients and due to the unique aspects of aging, proper preoperative nutrition is essential for this patient demographic. The goal of this research study is to determine if preoperative carbohydrate loading provides benefits to elderly patients through decreasing length of stay (LOS) in hospital and reducing perioperative patient adverse events, when undergoing orthopaedic spine surgeries. It is expected that preoperative carbohydrate loading in elderly patients receiving an orthopaedic spine surgery (fusion, decompression, or discectomy) will lead to greater outcomes through decreasing LOS in hospital and reducing perioperative patient adverse events compared to patients who did not receive preoperative carbohydrate loading.

Conditions

  • Diet, Carbohydrate Loading

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Gatorade Thirst Quencher

Gatorade Thirst Quencher, 710ml (45g of carbohydrates, 6.3% carbohydrates, 25.4kcal/100ml)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Horizon Health Network

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chris Small, MD · Canada East Spine Centre

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-07-13
Primary Completion
2024-07-31
Completion
2025-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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