Early Feeding Following Percutaneous Gastrostomy Tube Placement
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Gastrostomy
In brief
This study plans to learn more about the safety of early feeding following placement of a feeding tube. Doctors in other specialties feed patients 4 hours after patients receive a feeding tube. However, Interventional Radiologists typically wait to feed patients for 24 hours following feeding tube placement. The investigator would like to demonstrate that feeding after 4 hours does not increase complications and can actually reduce the burden to patients who receive a feeding tube.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03319576
- Run by
- University of Colorado, Denver
- People needed
- 12
- Starts
- 2017-10-30
- Expected to finish
- 2019-10-16
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-10-23
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients between the ages of 18-80 years
- Outpatients receiving a gastrostomy tube at University of Colorado that do not require post-pyloric feeding
- Patients that have no contraindication for intragastric feeding immediately following tube placement
- INR (international normalized ratio) <1.5
- Platelet count > 50,000/µL
- WBC (white blood cell count) 4.0-11.1 x 109/L
You may not qualify if…
- Patients < 18 years or > 80 years of age
- Patients admitted to the hospital at the time of screening (i.e., inpatients)
- Women who are pregnant (confirmed by urine pregnancy screen)
- Patients requiring post-pyloric feeding
- Patients receiving venting gastrostomy tubes
- Patients receiving primary Gastro-Jejunal (GJ) Tube tube placement
- Patients with an interposed bowel on CT after stomach insufflation
- INR > 1.5
- Platelet count < 50,000/µL
- WBC > 11.1 x 109/L
- Known active infection
- Need for post-gastric feeding
- History of gastric bypass surgery or Roux-En-Y
- Mechanical obstruction of the GI tract
- Active peritonitis
- Known hemodynamic instability as demonstrated by tachycardia, hypotension, labile blood pressure or altered mental status.
- Bowel ischemia
- Ascites
- Recent Gastro-Intestinal (GI) bleeding (within 2 weeks)
- Respiratory compromise as demonstrated by hypercarbia (CO2>45mmHg) or hypoxia (O2<90%)
- Unable to provide informed consent
Where it is running
- University of Colorado — Aurora, Colorado, United States
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