Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery Outcome in Pediatrics

Ain Shams University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Congenital Heart Disease

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Nutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for one week; Dietary Supplement: Nutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for two weeks

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02475759

ASU 015

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery Outcome in Pediatrics. A randomized controlled trial.

Full description

Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery in Pediatrics. A randomized controlled trial to compare the outcome of malnourished congenital heart surgery patients who randomly received nutritional rehabilitation program 2 weeks and 1 week before surgical intervention.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

The study included all infants with CHD, admitted to the cardiothoracic unit for either palliative or corrective surgery, and suffering from nutritional deficiencies with moderate or severe malnutrition .

Infants received long-term nutritional prehabiliatation. Those with congenital or acquired anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract; multiple congenital anomalies; chromosomal, metabolic,or endocrine diseases; any systemic illness; or fever or infection within 1 wk before the study entry were excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

two weeks prehabilitation group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for two weeks in malnourished congenital heart disease children

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Nutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for two weeks

one week prehabilitation group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for one week in malnourished congenital heart disease children

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Nutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for one week