NCT04696367

Impact of Nutritional Deficit in Emergency Surgery

Impact of Nutritional Deficit in Emergency Surgery: A Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 59 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients in emergency settings might become malnourished. There are different ways to identify the group as 'at risk' of malnutrition. There are also several different ways to measure outcomes. This pilot study will look at patients undergoing emergency laparotomy, investigate relationships between different selection criteria and outcome measures, and test feasibility of outcome measure collection.

Detailed description

Patients in emergency settings might become malnourished. There are different ways to identify the group as 'at risk' of malnutrition. There are also several different ways to measure outcomes. This pilot study will look at patients undergoing emergency laparotomy, investigate relationships between different selection criteria and outcome measures, and test feasibility of outcome measure collection.

Conditions

• Emergencies
• Surgery
• Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Emergency laparotomy	Midline laparotomy for acute intra-abdominal pathology

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-01
• Primary completion: 2021-04-30
• Completion: 2021-05-30
• First posted: 2021-01-06
• Last updated: 2021-10-08

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom