Status:

COMPLETED

Feeding Tube Attachment Device Versus Conventional Fixation and Its Impact on Accidental Exit of Enteral Feeding Tubes

Lead Sponsor:

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Conditions:

Adult

Enteral Nutrition

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-99 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Enteral nutritional therapy, fed through the gastrointestinal tract via a catheter, tube, catheter, or stoma, delivers the nutrients distally to the oral cavity and may reduce intrahospital malnutriti...

Detailed Description

Patients will be randomly assigned to the intervention group consisting of the use of the feeding tube attachment device (FTAD) or the control group that will use the conventional method of attachment...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adults hospitalized in the clinic unit care: 6 sul e 7 norte
  • Use of enteral nutrition in open system

Exclusion

  • Use of enteral nutrition by gastrostomy or jejunostomy

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 14 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 31 2018

Estimated Enrollment :

104 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03262493

Start Date

June 14 2017

End Date

March 31 2018

Last Update

August 9 2018

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Michelli Cristina Silva de Assis

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 90690270