Improving Nutritional Adequacy of ICU Survivors in a Prospective Interventional Way: the Bright Side Study (BrightSide)

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Other: Clinical Nutrition

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06023251

EC-2023-236

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective is to increase caloric adequacy in patients who survived critical illness and are admitted to the ward by the use of a pro-active inclusive nutritional strategy including supplemental parenteral and/or enteral nutrition and/or oral nutritional supplements guided by indirect calorimetry.

This enables the investigators to address, within a clinical/scientific context, a recently demonstrated but until now relatively neglected 'dark side' of patient care at UZ Brussel, comparable to limited global evidence : iatrogenic malnutrition of ICU survivors. The use of a newly developed clinical pathway and nutrition strategy (oral, enteral and parenteral) led by a single SPoC (Single Point of Contact) for patients surviving intensive care will have a clear objective: to address the nutritional deficit in all patients.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult ≥ 18 years
• ICU stay ≥ 7 days
• Ward stay ≥ 3 days
• Nutritional therapy not restricted
• Heterogeneous diseases

Exclusion criteria

• Patients < 18 years
• ICU < 7 days
• Ward stay < 3 days
• Advanced Care Planning with impact on nutritional therapy
• Patients with palliative care
• Metabolic derangements such as metabolic diseases
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Cohort

Other group

Description:

oral food, enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition

Treatment:

Other: Clinical Nutrition