Feeding Trial in the Obese Critical Care Population

Nestlé

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness; Obesity

Treatments: Other: enteral formula

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01357200

10.02.US.CLI

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will assess enteral feeding in an obese critically ill population with a higher protein whey based peptide formula.

Full description

Assess enteral feeding goal with a higher protein whey based peptide formula in an obese critically ill population.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Surgical or Medical intensive care unit (ICU) patient
• Body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant or lactating
• unable to access gastrointestinal (GI) tract for feeding via tube
• other contraindication to tube feeding
• admitted with burns
• severe head trauma

Trial design

26 participants in 1 patient group

critically ill obese adults

Description:

Age ≥ 18 years, body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30, in intensive care unit (ICU) requiring tube feeding ≥ 3 days

Treatment:

Other: enteral formula