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Filter by:This is a Multicenter, Open-label, Single-arm study evaluating the Tolerance and Safety of a Peptide-based Enteral Formula with Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum (PHGG) in the Nutritional Management of Tube-fed Children Aged 1-4 Years over a 7 day period.
The current study will enroll critically ill patients who are going to require enteral nutrition support and randomize them to standard formula enteral nutrition or pectin-supplemented enteral nutrition in 7 days. The occurrence of enteral nutrition-related complications will be recorded and compared between groups. The study is trying to assess whether the use of pectin will improve the enteral nutrition-related complications in critically ill patients.
Enteral feeding tube (EFT) and component of feeding systems can serve as a reservoir of microorganisms, and the main reason is inappropriate hand hygiene practices. The aim of the project is to determine colonization of microorganisms on the EFT and other components and assess the relation between colonization and adherence to hand hygiene practices by healthcare workers in the intensive care unit. This prospective, observational and semi-experimental study will be conducted in one year. The project will be completed with healthcare workers and 51 patients who are feeding enteral route via nasogastric tube at least for three days. The researchers will provide training to healthcare workers in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) Hand Hygiene Guidelines. Hand hygiene behaviors of the participants will be observed and the question forms will be filled before and after training by researchers. The samples for microbial analysis will be collected from the EFT by sterile swaps.
This study prospectively recruited esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma patients who received nasogastric tube (NG), gastrostomy feeding and oral intake to compare the changes in nutritional status and quality of life during chemoradiation therapy (CRT).
When patients cannot eat and drink enough a tube can be placed through their nostril, down the back of their throat into their stomach and used to give their nutrition as a liquid feed. One of the commonest problems when using this tube is regurgitation of feed up from the stomach (gastro- oesophageal reflux (GOR)), or liquid stools (diarrhoea). This can cause the patient discomfort, a higher risk of getting a skin or chest infection, and increase the risk that the feed is stopped. The investigators intend to investigate, in twelve healthy young men, whether adding a form of dietary fibre (alginate) to the feed could reduce these symptoms (diarrhoea and GOR), hence ensuring patients are properly nourished and recover as quickly as possible from their illness, Each volunteer will come to the lab twice and will have a tube inserted into the stomach via the nose so that they can be given both feeds. Each time, the investigators will take repeated pictures of how the feed is passing through their gut using a non invasive technique called 'magnetic resonance imaging' (MRI), take blood samples to see how quickly the nutrition is absorbed into the blood, and measure how hungry they feel
The French intensive care societies (SRLF and SFAR), in agreement with the European and American societies for enteral and parenteral nutrition, recommend to quickly administer an artificial nutrition to patients admitted to ICU and for which it is expected that they will not be able to eat normally in the three days of admission. Enteral nutrition should be used in priority if the gut is functioning. However, intolerance to enteral nutrition, such as vomiting, regurgitation, increased residual gastric volume, or diarrhea, occurs in 40% of patients hospitalized in ICU receiving enteral nutrition. Intolerance to enteral nutrition leads to the risk of not receiving enough nutrition. Feeding intolerance also exposes to the risk of acute mesenteric ischemia, especially in the most severe patients under catecholamine for shock. Currently, it is not possible to predict intolerance to enteral nutrition in ICU patients. Thus, the diagnosis of intolerance is made a posteriori while enteral nutrition is in progress. Citrullinemia (normal concentration of 20 to 60 μmol / L), could be a good biomarker of the function of enterocytes involved in the absorption of food. The aim of this study is to evaluate the interest of citrullinemia to predict tolerance to enteral nutrition in ICU patients.
The estimation of calorie needs during routine practice in critically ill patients is highly variable and the thermogenic effect of continuous delivery of enteral nutrition (EN) on overall calorie utilisation in critically ill adults is unknown. The TARGET-ME study is a substudy of the TARGET trial (NCT02306746). The TARGET trial provides the perfect opportunity to measure calorie utilisation via indirect calorimetry (IC) and ventilator-derived carbon dioxide production (VCO2) to compare measured calorie utilisation to estimation methods, determine the potential thermic effect of EN solutions with different energy concentrations and investigate any associations with outcome.
The investigators aim to evaluate the roles of Th9/IL-9 in the mechanisms of early enteral nutrition (EEN) maintaining intestinal mucosal barrier in sepsis. The results of this study would lay the foundation for revealing the mechanisms of EEN improving immune imbalance of sepsis and provide a new idea to the early treatment of sepsis. In addition, the investigators also aim to evaluate the effects of different proportions of target total enteral nutrition on the prognosis of sepsis.
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory diseases. It is believed that the inflammation results from sustained abnormal immune response towards altered or pathogenic microbiota in genetically susceptible hosts. Malnutrition is common in IBD, especially in pediatric Crohn's disease(CD). Exclusive enteral nutrion(EEN) has been shown to improve nutritional status and inflammatory markers in pediatric CD. But there is limited data about the effect of EEN on Chinese children with CD. In this study, investigators focused on disease process,nutritional status and gut microbiome of Chinese children with newly-diagnosed CD after EEN treatment.
Published guidelines recommend at least 2 gm/kg/day of protein for critically ill surgical patients. It may not be possible to achieve this level of intake using polymeric enteral nutritional formula and protein or amino acid supplementation will be necessary. This was a retrospective cohort study in which the investigators reviewed critically ill trauma and surgical patients treated with supplemental enteral protein according to a protocol aimed to deliver a total of 2 gm/kg/day of protein. The investigators studied detailed nutritional data from a 2 week period after admission and obtained additional data through discharge to determine caloric intake, protein intake and complications. The investigators also compared urine nitrogen excretion and visceral protein (transthyretin) concentrations between those who received early supplementation with those who did not.