NCT01728896

Patient-Initiated and ConTrolled Oral Refeeding (PICTOR)

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Patient-Initiated and ConTrolled Oral Refeeding in Acute Pancreatitis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Auckland, New Zealand · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The first step in treating patients with acute pancreatitis is to provide pain relief and intravenous fluids to keep them comfortable. As the pain subsides and patient starts to feel better food and fluids by mouth are restarted. This is done to rest the pancreas which is the organ that has been inflamed. In some patients when food by mouth restarts they have pain and as a consequence they have a longer stay in hospital. It is thought that patients who have little pain and are within 24 hours of admission to hospital do well if they control their own food intake. This is in contrast to the usual treatment where the treating team advise when eating should restart.

Conditions

• Acute Pancreatitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Patient-controlled oral refeeding

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-12-01
• Primary completion: 2018-06-01
• Completion: 2019-06-01
• First posted: 2012-11-20
• Last updated: 2019-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: New Zealand