Gastric Residuals in Preterm Infants

McMaster Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preterm Infants; Nutrition; Early Enteral Feeding Advancement

Treatments: Procedure: No check of gastric residuals for early enteral feeding advancement; Procedure: Routine check of gastric residuals for early enteral feeding advancement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01337622

201101GRIP

Details and patient eligibility

About

Checking of gastric residuals prior to the continuation/increase of enteral feeding prolongs the time to establish full gastric feeding in the early postnatal period.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 48 hours old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infants with a birth weight ≥ 1500g and < 2000g
• Age ≤48 hours of life
• Informed, written parental consent

Exclusion criteria

• Antenatally recognized gastrointestinal malformation
• Major congenital anomaly
• Chromosomal anomaly
• NEC stage II
• Severe acidosis, asphyxia (pH <7.0)
• Severe growth restriction below 3rd percentile

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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87 participants in 2 patient groups

No routine check for gastric residuals

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: No check of gastric residuals for early enteral feeding advancement

Routine check for gastric residuals

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Routine check of gastric residuals for early enteral feeding advancement