Dietary Fiber, Enteral Nutrition
Conditions
Brief summary
The current study will enroll critically ill patients who are going to require enteral nutrition support and randomize them to standard formula enteral nutrition or pectin-supplemented enteral nutrition in 7 days. The occurrence of enteral nutrition-related complications will be recorded and compared between groups. The study is trying to assess whether the use of pectin will improve the enteral nutrition-related complications in critically ill patients.
Interventions
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENTpectin-supplemented enteral nutrition feeding
sequential supplementation with combination of 90ml pectin and 500ml enteral nutrition formula for 7 days
OTHERenteral nutrition feeding
standard formula enteral nutrition feeding without pectin for 7 days
Sponsors
Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients aged 18-80 years old, with informed consent to participate; * Critically ill patients who require enteral nutrition support
Exclusion criteria
* Patients with lung infection at admission * Condition which contraindicates enteral feeding (i.e. intestinal obstruction) * Lack of enteral access * Any condition that would contraindicate use of the enteral nutrition * Require enteral nutrition support for less than 1week or more than 4 weeks from enrollment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Complication of enteral feeding | 7 days | Record daily diarrhea ,complications, aspiration pneumonia,poor gastric emptying |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| feeding time of enteral nutrition | 7 days | Record daily feeding time of enteral nutrition |
| total energy intake | 7 days | Record daily energy intake |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed