Postoperative Oral Intake Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Complete fasting until resumed bowel function after upper abdominal surgery is not beneficial. Enteral feeding has been claimed to be the preferred way of delivering nutritional support postoperatively. Increasing evidence suggests that letting patients eat ("voluntary oral feeding" or "oral intake at will") from the day after the operation is safe. No prospective randomised trial has been undertaken to compare these two regimens. In this study, the investigators will randomise 444 patients, subject to major upper abdominal surgery, into receiving either continuous enteral feeding by needle catheter jejunostomy until resumed bowel function, or to oral intake at will from postoperative day 1. The main endpoints are the incidence rate of major complications and death, as well as a Quality of Life assessment.

Null-Hypothesis:

Routine postoperative feeding by needle catheter jejunostomy after major, upper abdominal surgery has no clinically relevant advantages over early oral intake at will.

Clinical Trial Description

Complete fasting until resumed bowel function after upper abdominal surgery is not beneficial. Enteral feeding has been claimed to be the preferred way of delivering nutritional support postoperatively. Increasing evidence suggests that letting patients eat ("voluntary oral feeding" or "oral intake at will") from the day after the operation is safe. No prospective randomised trial has been undertaken to compare these two regimens. In this study, we will randomise 444 patients, subject to major upper abdominal surgery, into receiving either continuous enteral feeding by needle catheter jejunostomy until resumed bowel function, or to oral intake at will from postoperative day 1. The main endpoints are the incidence rate of major complications and death, as well as a Quality of Life assessment.

Null-Hypothesis:

Routine postoperative feeding by needle catheter jejunostomy after major, upper abdominal surgery has no clinically relevant advantages over early oral intake at will. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Postoperative Care

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT00134407
Study type	Interventional
Source	University Hospital of North Norway
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	Phase 1
Start date	February 2001
Completion date	June 2006

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