Benefits of Post-Pyloric Feeding Tubes in Critically Ill Patients

Johns Hopkins University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Critical Illness

Treatments: Device: Transpyloric feeding tubes (Nasogastric Tube (NG tube), Tiger2, Syncro BlueTube)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01343316

NA_00041559

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the benefit of feeding critically-ill patients beyond the stomach (post-pyloric). Furthermore, because of the advent of two new post-pyloric feeding tubes (Tiger 2 and Syncro BlueTube) designed to improve post-pyloric placement, the investigators will be evaluating the benefits of those two tubes as well.

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients admitted to the ICU who are deemed by the attending critical care physician to warrant tube feeds and expected to receive tube feeds for more than three days

Trial design

21 participants in 3 patient groups

Transgastric tube

Description:

Nasogastric (NG tube)

Treatment:

Device: Transpyloric feeding tubes (Nasogastric Tube (NG tube), Tiger2, Syncro BlueTube)

Transpyloric tube - Tiger2

Description:

Self-propelled by paristaltic waves of the stomach

Treatment:

Device: Transpyloric feeding tubes (Nasogastric Tube (NG tube), Tiger2, Syncro BlueTube)

Transpyloric tube - Syncro BlueTube

Description:

Magnetically placed

Treatment:

Device: Transpyloric feeding tubes (Nasogastric Tube (NG tube), Tiger2, Syncro BlueTube)