NCT01727570

Prehabilitation to Overcome the Stress of Surgery: the Role of Nutrition in Enhancing Postoperative Functional Capacity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Franco Carli · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine the impact of nutritional supplementation with whey protein on postoperative functional capacity in patients undergoing colorectal surgery for cancer.It is hypothesized that, compared with a control group receiving nutrition counselling only, patients receiving nutritional counselling along with preoperative and postoperative nutritional supplements will have a significantly improved change in functional walking capacity from baseline to 8 weeks after surgery.

Detailed description

The aims of this research project are the following: 1. Determine to what extent a nutritional prehabilitation regimen, which includes whey protein, initiated before surgery and continued after surgery, optimizes the recovery of functional walking capacity following colorectal resection for cancer. 2. To understand further which measures of immediate surgical recovery are sensitive to prehabilitation interventions, and predict change in later outcome measures.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Whey Protein (Immunocal®)	The amount of Immunocal® whey protein the patient is required to take daily will be determined on an individual basis by the nutritionist according to the assessed protein deficit in the patient's diet.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2012-11-16
• Last updated: 2014-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada