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Administrative data

NCT number NCT01937884
Other study ID # 13-0374
Secondary ID 5K12HD047349-09
Status Terminated
Phase Phase 2
First received
Last updated
Start date August 2013
Est. completion date August 2018

Study information

Verified date February 2021
Source University of Arizona
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Optimal delivery of nutritional support during critical illness is central to appropriate intensive care unit management, and yet fundamental gaps in knowledge exist regarding timing, route, dose, and type of nutritional support for critically ill infants and children. Understanding how to optimize nutritional support during pediatric critical illness is important because even brief periods of malnutrition in infancy result in permanent negative effects on long-term neurocognitive development. Optimized nutrition support is a way to improve morbidity for survivors of pediatric critical illness. Parenteral nutrition (PN) supplementation could improve long-term neurocognitive outcome for pediatric critical illness by preventing acute malnutrition, but has unknown effects on intestinal barrier function; a proposed mechanism for late sepsis and infectious complications during critical illness. While randomized controlled trials (RCT) support early PN in premature infants and late PN in critically ill adults, the optimal time to begin PN is unknown for critically ill infants and children. Acute malnutrition may develop within 48 hours of admission in critically ill infants and children, and repleted energy stores are predictive of survival. And yet, due to concerns for PN-associated infectious morbidity, current PICU standard of care is to supplement with PN only in children who fail to enterally feed, as late as 7 days into their admission. Delays in nutrition may have long-term effects on cognitive outcome in older infants and children. In premature infants, PN begun within hours of birth results in improved 18-month neurocognitive outcome without an increase in infectious complications. An RCT is needed to determine if early PN in critically ill infants and children prevents acute malnutrition and improves short and long-term outcomes of PICU hospitalization. The central hypothesis of this proposal is that optimized early protein and calorie delivery will improve nutritional outcomes and intestinal barrier function for critically ill infants and children. The overall purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of early PN as a supplement to enteral nutrition to improve nutritional delivery, nutritional outcomes, and intestinal barrier function for infants and children with acute respiratory failure who are mechanically ventilated in the pediatric intensive care unit.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Terminated
Enrollment 18
Est. completion date August 2018
Est. primary completion date August 2018
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 1 Month to 16 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: 1. Admitted to study hospital pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), 2. One month to 16 years of age, 3. Exhibits Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure as defined as: PaO2/FiO2 = 300 or SpO2/FiO2 = 260, No evidence of cardiac dysfunction, Mechanically ventilated, 4. Require artificial nutrition, 5. Anticipate placement of central venous line within 24 hours of admission Exclusion Criteria: 1. Premature infants and neonates < 37 weeks corrected gestational age, 2. Transfer patient on an established enteral or parenteral nutritional regimen, 3. Known allergy to lactulose or mannitol, 4. Pregnant, 5. Admit BMI >30, 6. Thoracic trauma, abdominal trauma, and/or active intracranial bleeding, 7. Anuric renal failure, previous bowel surgery and/or short gut syndrome, 8. Cannot be enterally fed within 24 hours of admission according to the admitting physician, 9. On extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), 10. Expected survival <24 hours or limitations to aggressive ICU care (DNR), 11. Receiving active CPR when admitted to the PICU, 12. A pre-existing bronchopleural fistula, 13. Previously enrolled and randomized into this protocol, 14. Actively enrolled in another clinical trial which at the discretion of the PI would conflict with this study.

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Drug:
Parenteral Nutrition


Locations

Country Name City State
United States University of Arizona Medical Center Tucson Arizona

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of Arizona Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Other Number of Participants With Hospital-Acquired Infections Record any hospital-defined hospital acquired infections through day 28 in all study participants. until hospital discharge or day 28 if still hospitalized
Other 28-day Mortality Death of a study patient do to any cause measured up to 28 days after study enrollment. 28 days
Primary Modified Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index (PINI) The change day 0 to day 5 of the modified Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index (PINI) is a quantitative method to monitor the relation between markers of nutrition and acute phase proteins. It allows assessment of nutrition markers in the context of acute inflammation and in response to early enteral nutrition. A higher baseline PINI score indicates higher degree of inflammation. The modified PINI is calculated by the the ratio of (C-Reactive Protein(mg/dL) x Fibrinogen (mg/dL))/ (Transferrin (mg/dL) x Transthyretin (mg/dL)). The average change in the modified PINI from day 0 to day 5 critically ill children receiving early enteral nutrition is a decrease by 5.3 +/- 3.2 (mean +/- standard error of the mean) (Briassoulis et.al. Nutrition 2001). A larger negative number for the change from day 0 to day 5 indicates a greater degree of inflammation resolution. Change in PINI from day 0 to day 5
Secondary Cumulative Percent of Daily Goal Calories Achieved Evaluate percentage of cumulative goal calories achieved through parenteral and enteral routes in both study arms until patient exits study participation. Measure is calculated by (sum of kcal delivered over days of study participation/number of days in study). baseline and daily through day 7
Secondary Plasma Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein (I-FABP) The percent change in plasma Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein from baseline to study day 5, prior to late PN initiation baseline and day 5
Secondary Plasma Citrulline Evaluates absolute plasma citrulline concentration as a measure of functional enterocyte mass. A higher citrulline concentration indicates a higher functional enterocyte mass. Healthy children have an average citrulline concentration of 25 +/- 9 uMol/L. Assessed on day 0 and day 5, results reported for day 0 and 5. Outcome analysis on difference between treatment groups on day 5. baseline and day 5
Secondary Plasma Claudin 3 As a measure of enterocyte tight junctions, calculate the percent change in plasma claudin 3 concentrations from baseline (day 0) and study day 5, prior to late PN administration. baseline through hour 96
Secondary Gastrointestinal Permeability Gastrointestinal permeability measured with the ratio of urinary recovery of lactulose and mannitol on day 5 of study participation. The range of values is generally reported as 0.02 to 2.2 with a higher value indicating greater gastrointestinal permeability. Values obtained on day 0 and day 5, day 5 reported. day 5
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