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Enteral Nutrition Delivery in Prone Position Ventilated Patients With Moderate to Severe ARDS
Led by Southeast University, China · Updated on 2026-01-23
40
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
40 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This pilot study is aimed to compare and assess the impact, safety, and practical utility of gastric versus postpyloric feeding in moderate to severe ARDS patients with prone position ventilation. Patients included will be randomly assigned to receive enteral nutrition either through a nasogastric tube or a nasojejunal tube. The primary endpoint is the achievement of enteral nutrition goals. Secondary endpoints include the incidence of hospital-acquired infections, the number of ventilator-free days within 28 days, ICU length of stay, ICU mortality, 28-day mortality, 60-day mortality rates, the incidence of enteral nutrition intolerance, and the rate of enteral nutrition intake.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Enteral Nutrition Delivery in Prone Position Ventilated Patients With Moderate to Severe ARDS
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- ARDS patients meeting Berlin criteria with a P/F ratio 60 200mmHg
- Receiving invasive mechanical ventilation and needing prone ventilation for at least 12 hours daily and 3 or more days
- Planned to receive enteral nutrition
- Age between 18 and 85 years
- Signed informed consent form
You will not qualify if you...
- Contraindications to enteral nutrition such as severe intestinal ischemia, active upper gastrointestinal bleeding, high-output intestinal fistula without distal feeding route, abdominal compartment syndrome, severe diarrhea, intestinal obstruction
- Shock with hemodynamic instability or tissue hypoperfusion
- Life-threatening hypoxemia, hypercapnia, or acidosis
- Unable to tolerate prone ventilation due to conditions like pregnancy, limb contractures, recent fractures or surgeries, pacemaker insertion within 48 hours, spinal instability, pelvic or facial fractures, difficult airway
- Conditions preventing nasogastric or nasojejunal tube placement
- Inability to start enteral nutrition within 48 hours
- Use of prokinetic agents within 48 hours before enteral nutrition
- Enteral nutrition via gastrostomy or jejunostomy
- Expected ICU stay or survival less than 3 days
- Refusal of further resuscitative treatment
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- Participation in other interventional clinical studies or deemed unsuitable by clinician
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Zhongda hospital, Southeast university
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 210009
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Research Team
A
Airan Liu, PHD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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