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Feasibility Study to Evaluate Safety of ENvizion Medical™ ENVUE™ System

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Envizion Medical

Status

Completed

Conditions

Enteral Nutrition

Treatments

Device: ENVUE System

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT03505593
NUTRI002

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a single center, non-randomized feasibility clinical evaluation that is designed to affirm the safety of the ENVUE™ System guidance during the placement of the ENvizion Medical™ enteral feeding tubes.

Full description

Enteral nutrition is the preferred route for the provision of nutritional support in most critical ill patients with functional gastrointestinal tract. Achieving early enteral nutrition (EN) in critically ill patients is associated with fewer major complications, reduced mortality and length of hospital stay, and significant cost savings. It is estimated that approximately 1.2 million feeding tubes are placed blindly each year in the United States alone. Despite the obvious advantages of the enteral tube feeding, inadvertent placement of Enteral Feeding Tube (EFT) into the airway is relatively common and can result in significant pulmonary injury including pneumothorax and pneumonia. Airway misplacement occurs in 1.2- 4 % of blind EFT insertions, with 0.2 to 1.2% of all the feeding tube placements cause pulmonary complications to patients. The gold standard for detecting inadvertent placement of a feeding tube in the lungs is radiography. However, because of its cost, possible delay of feedings while waiting for radiography, and risk for radiation exposure, clinicians continue to seek for alternative methods to confirm correct placement.

All the above mentioned, emphasizes the fact that safe and effective delivery of nasoenteral tube feedings requires assurance that the feeding tube tip is in a proper position. The ENVUE™ System is an electromagnetic tracking system which tracks the path of the feeding tube during placement. The benefit of the system when EFT is misdirected into the pulmonary system is a real-time visual tracing, which may prompt users to withdraw the tube and reinsert it.

Enrollment

48 patients

Sex

All

Ages

21+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients must be >21 years of age
  • Patients must require placement of an enteral feeding tube
  • Patients have an endotracheal tube, OR Do not have an endotracheal tube but are sedated (RASS score of -2 or less) and/or obtunded (Glasgow Coma scale of 9-12)
  • Patients or legal authorized representative must be able to understand and adhere to all protocol procedures and be willing and able to provide written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients must not have a history of:

    • Esophageal varices or ulcers
    • Upper airway obstruction
    • Upper GI stenosis or obstruction
    • Trauma involving sinuses, nares face or neck that would prevent nasogastric (NG) or oral tube insertion
    • Deformities of the sinus cavities and/or skull base
    • Esophageal cancer or neoplasm
  • Patients must not have a significant concomitant illness that would adversely affect their participation in the study

  • Female patients who are pregnant or lactating

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

48 participants in 1 patient group

EFT placement using ENVUE System
Experimental group
Description:
Placement of the ENvizion Medical™ Enteral Feeding Tube (EFT) in the stomach or small intestine of adult patients who require feedings via the oro/ nasoenteric route, using the ENVUE™ System.
Treatment:
Device: ENVUE System

Trial documents
1

Trial contacts and locations

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