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The purpose of this pilot study is to overcome the limited evidence on enteral fluid administration in intensive care medicine and to generate data for further hypothesis generation in an exploratory setting. This trial is a prospective, multicenter, randomized, parallel group, open-label study to compare the current standard of practice, the intravenous fluid administration, with a more physiological approach, the enteral fluid administration, in critically ill patients.


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Introduction: The effectiveness and safety of enteral fluid administration in critically ill patients remains unclear. Existing evidence regarding this topic is scarce, but suggests that enteral fluid administration is a safe route of administration. To our knowledge no randomized controlled trial has been conducted investigating this topic. Objectives: The aim of this pilot study is to gather evidence on the impact of enteral fluid replacement on clinical, laboratory and outcome parameters in intensive care patients in order to plan a subsequent larger randomized controlled trial. Clinical outcomes indices evaluated are regurgitation, thirst, serum sodium, mortality, length of mechanical ventilation arterial pressure, urinary volume, body weight, edema, intra-abdominal pressure), changes in bioimpedance spectroscopy-derived markers, fluid overload, renal function tests, liver function tests and SOFA-Scores. Methods: The trial is a prospective, multicenter, randomized, parallel group, open-label study. Patients are going to be recruited and randomized at 3 separate internal medicine intensive care units in Vienna, Austria. A total of 64 patients will be recruited and randomized to receive enteral fluid administration via nasogastric tube or intravenous administration only. Daily visits and evaluation of clinical and radiological fluid status is performed by the attending physician. Regular study visits with Bioimpedance spectroscopy measurements (BIS) to evaluate fluid status are going to be performed Results and conclusions: The ERI study will provide data on potential outcome parameters to plan a subsequent larger randomized control trial for patients receiving enteral fluid therapy in intensive care medicine. Ethics and dissemination: The trial is performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. It subscribes to the principles outlined in the most recent version of the International Conference on Harmonization on Good Clinical Practice. Approval was obtained from the ethics committee of the Medical University of Vienna (EK number 1790/2020). The study has also been registered in a public clinical trial database (EudraCT Identifier Number 2018-002447-29, clinicaltrialsregister.eu). ;


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NCT number NCT05595395
Study type Interventional
Source Medical University of Vienna
Contact Manfred Hecking, MD, PhD
Phone 0043-699-10580831
Email manfred.hecking@meduniwien.ac.at
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date February 13, 2023
Completion date June 1, 2025

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