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Often, infants struggle to feed orally after surgery for congenital heart disease and may require supplemental feeding interventions at discharge. In this study, the investigators prospectively randomize infants to oral or nasal endotracheal intubation for surgery and assess postoperative feeding success.


Clinical Trial Description

Patients who require cardiac surgery in the neonatal period frequently encounter difficulties reaching full volume oral feeds. These difficulties are related to developmental features, perioperative events, and post-operative oral aversion symptoms. Patients who struggle with oral feeding require longer hospitalizations and frequently require invasive devices for stable nutrition at discharge. The investigators hypothesize that nasal intubation for neonatal cardiac surgery may reduce time to full oral feeds and decrease the proportion of patients requiring discharge feeding tubes. This is a single-center, prospective randomized control trial of patients less than 2 weeks of age who undergo endotracheal intubation at the time of cardiac surgery. The investigators exclude patients who were <37 weeks corrected gestational age (GA) at surgery, had orofacial or gastrointestinal anomalies, required >5 days of intubation before surgery, or required ECMO or >5 minutes of CPR at any time during the hospitalization. Patients are randomized to nasal (NI) or oral intubation (OI) by a trained pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at the time of their surgery. Infants are followed post-operatively until the time of discharge and otherwise receive routine care in the intensive care unit and acute cardiology service. Information regarding feeding milestones is obtained from the electronic medical record. ;


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NCT number NCT05378685
Study type Interventional
Source University of Virginia
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Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date July 1, 2018
Completion date June 30, 2022

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