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Brief title
Health condition
Adult patients on a gastrointestinal surgical wards with an indication for enteral nutrition via a nasoenteral feeding tube, as indicated by the treating physician and/or consulting dietitian.
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
interval between physician order, tube placement
Secondary outcome
- interval between physician order and start feeding
- need for reinsertion of the feeding tube (e.g. after failed initial placement or due to tube related complications)
- success rate of primary tube placement
- patient-reported outcomes (patient CRF after placement)
- tube (placement) related complications, such as clogging, kinking, fall out
- duration of the tube placement procedure
- duration of tube feeding
- duration of primary tube stay
- need for feeding related interventions (including EM guided repositioning without reinsertion of the tube)
- use of parenteral nutrition
- length of hospital stay; in-hospital mortality;
Study objective
Placement by ward nurses reduces the time between order and placement. With comparable patient reported outcomes as well as primary success rate.
Study design
during hospital stay
Intervention
Naso-enteral feeding tube placement by surgical ward nurse
Inclusion criteria
- Adult patients admitted to gastrointestinal surgical wards with an indication for a nasoenteral feeding tube
Exclusion criteria
- contraindication for enteral feeding or EM guided placement, patients requiring tube placement during weekends or with unavailability from the trained nurses
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL5360 |
| NTR-old | NTR5625 |
| Other | METC : W16_050 # 16.065 |