Coffee Against Obstipation in Intensive Care Treatment

University Hospital Heidelberg

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Obstipation

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: coffee rectally; Dietary Supplement: coffee

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01473966

COFFEE

Details and patient eligibility

About

Coffee might stimulate bowel movement and thus overcome obstipation in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

Full description

Critically ill patients requiring ventilator support frequently suffer from obstipation. We hypothesize that coffee, administered either orally or rectally, might stimulate bowel movement.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• admission to the medical intensive care unit of the Dept. of Gastroenterology at the university hospital heidelberg
• requires ventilator support for an anticipated more than 72 hours
• age older than 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• known allergy to coffee
• mechanical ileus
• presence of enterostoma

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 3 patient groups

standard of care

No Intervention group

Description:

patients receive standard care

Coffee orally

Experimental group

Description:

patients will receive standard of care plus coffee orally

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: coffee

coffee rectally

Experimental group

Description:

patients receive standard of care plus coffee rectally

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: coffee rectally