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Administrative data

NCT number NCT03016767
Other study ID # 2014_0679_PP
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date January 2, 2017
Est. completion date September 15, 2017

Study information

Verified date October 2018
Source Fundacion Para La Investigacion Hospital La Fe
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Oral feeding in the neonatal period requires an accurate coordination between suction, swallowing and breathing. In premature new-borns and, depending on their gestational age, the coordinated work of those processes becomes jeopardised, being necessary to begin with an artificial enteral feeding. This situation results in lengthen their stay at the hospital until they are able to respond in a reliable way to their nutritional requirements orally, maintaining an adequate daily weight gain and without endangering their cardiorespiratory system.

This project is an experimental, prospective, blinded, randomized study, aimed to determine whether the application of a manual oral stimulation protocol in premature infants, hospitalized in a neonatal unit, reduces the transition time from enteral feeding to oral full feeding, while improves quality of feeding and shortens hospitalization time.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 44
Est. completion date September 15, 2017
Est. primary completion date July 2017
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 25 Weeks to 30 Weeks
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Babies between 25 + 0 to 30 + 6 weeks of gestation according to the last menstruation, with adequate weight and size for their gestational age, who are receiving orogastric tube feeding, presenting clinical hemodynamic and cardiorespiratory stability and without any associated pathology.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Babies with congenital anomalies that affect feeding (chromosomopathies, craniofacial anomalies, severe esophageal or tracheal atresia, or any other that affect feeding),

- Babies with abnormalities that alter digestive function such as "necrotizing enterocolitis".

- Babies with other abnormalities that alter hemodynamic or cardiorespiratory stability, that present severe sepsis or positive meningitis culture, that suffer from chronic medical complications such as severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia, grade III or IV intraparaventricular hemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia, etc.,

- Inability to to assign an exact gestational age.

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Procedure:
Manual oral stimulation protocol


Locations

Country Name City State
Spain Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Fundacion Para La Investigacion Hospital La Fe

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary T1: Time elapsed, in days, from the end of the oral stimulation protocol (OSP) until the baby is able to ingest, through nutritive suction,100% of the total of the corresponding intake for his/her weight. A neonatology nurse, blinded to the study, routinely records, after each intake and on the habitual nursing evolution sheet, the amounts of milk that prematures take and the way of feeding (enteral, oral), among other factors (height, weight, percentile, incidences...). When the premature reaches 30 weeks of gestational age (30 + 0 to 30 + 6), the physiotherapist perform the ten-day manual oral stimulation protocol. The researchers will look at the nursing evolution sheet, the time (days) elapsed from the end of the protocol (equivalent day in control group) to the day in which babies are able to take 100% of the corresponding intake for their weight. Is estimated that experimental group will reach this goal approximately 3 days before than control group. An average of 20 days after the baby is 32 weeks (32+0 to 32+6)
Primary T2: Time elapsed, in days, from the end of the OSP until the baby is able to ingest, through nutritive suction, 30% of the total of the corresponding intake for his/her weight. 30% suction without complications means that the baby already has the reflexes integrated and is able to coordinate suction, swallowing and breathing.
A neonatology nurse, blinded to the study, routinely records, after each intake and on the habitual nursing evolution sheet, the amounts of milk that prematures take and the way of feeding (enteral, oral), among other factors (height, weight, percentile, incidences...). When the premature reaches 30 weeks of gestational age (30 + 0 to 30 + 6), the physiotherapist perform the ten-day manual oral stimulation protocol. The researchers will look at the nursing evolution sheet, the time (days) elapsed from the end of the protocol (equivalent day in control group) to the day in which babies are able to take 30% of the corresponding intake for their weight. Is estimated that experimental group will reach this goal approximately 4-5 days before than control group
An average of 10 days after the baby is 32 weeks (32+0 to 32+6)
Primary T3: Time elapsed, in days, from the end of the OSP protocol until the baby is able to perform a full oral feeding, defined as the intake, by nutritive suction, of a quantity of milk = 150 ml / kg / day , for three consecutive days. To be able to intake, by nutritive suction, of a quantity of milk = 150 ml / kg / day , for three consecutive days (full oral feeding), is a discharge criterion in the Hospital la Fe of Valencia.
A neonatology nurse, blinded to the study, routinely records, after each intake and on the habitual nursing evolution sheet, the amounts of milk that prematures take and the way of feeding (enteral, oral), among other factors (height, weight, percentile, incidences...). When the premature reaches 30 weeks of gestational age (30 + 0 to 30 + 6), the physiotherapist perform the ten-day manual oral stimulation protocol. The researchers will look at the nursing evolution sheet, the time (days) elapsed from the end of the protocol (equivalent day in control group) to the day in which babies are able to take a quantity of milk = 150 ml / kg / day , for three consecutive days. Is estimated that experimental group will reach this goal approximately 4 days before than control group.
An average of 25 days after the baby is 32 weeks (32+0 to 32+6)
Primary T4: Time of hospitalization of the babies. When babies are discharged from the hospital, researchers calculate the difference between gestational age (GE) the day they are discharged and the GE they were hospitalized. Is estimated that experimental group will reach this goal approximately 3 days before than control group. An average of 9 weeks after the baby was hospitalized
Secondary Weight gain of babies Improving the weight gain of experimental group is also one of the main results in similar studies.
When babies are discharged from the hospital, researchers look at the nursing evolution sheet, their weight gain (percentile) along their hospitalization.
When babies are discharged from the hospital, an average of 9 weeks after the babies were hospitalized
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