Impaired Preoperative Nutritional Status as a Risk Factor for Postoperative Clinical Outcome (PreopBIA)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutritional Status

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01492946

PreopBIA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this retrospective observational study is to determine the impact of preoperative nutritional status on postoperative outcome. Elective surgical patients were screened with Bio-Impedance-Analysis, Malnutritional Universal Screening Tool, and other variables for body composition. Outcome parameters were collected by patient chart review.

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Elective surgical intervention
2. Patients must be 18 years or older
3. Ambulation
4. ASA-Score I-IV
5. bioelectrical impedance analysis to determine the phase angle

Exclusion criteria

1. Emergency surgery
2. Pregnancy
3. ASA Score V-VI
4. Amputated limbs
5. Pacemaker and defibrillators
6. Cerebrovascular events
7. Tattoos on the electrode locations

Trial design

400 participants in 1 patient group

Elective surgical patients

Description:

Elective surgical patients in the Charité University Berlin Campus Charité Mitte