Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery Outcome in Pediatrics

Nutritional Prehabilitation Program and Cardiac Surgery Outcome in Pediatrics. A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02475759

Enrollment

Registered

2015-06-19

Start date

2017-11-01

Completion date

2019-11-01

Last updated

2022-03-03

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Conditions

Congenital Heart Disease

Brief summary

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

Detailed 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.

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENTNutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for two weeks

nutritional intervention received two weeks before surgical intervention

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENTNutritional perioperative prehabilitation program for one week

nutritional intervention received one weeks before surgical intervention

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion 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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
daily feeding characteristics	admission	daily feeding characteristics
anthropometric and laboratory measure	admission	anthropometric and laboratory measure

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
length of ICU stay	3weeks	length of ICU stay
duration of mechanical ventilation and extubation timing	3 weeks	total days of mechanical ventilation
postoperative vital stability, surgical complication,nosocomial sepsis,inotropes withdrawal	admission	same as above

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026