Improving Nutritional Adequacy of ICU Survivors in a Prospective Interventional Way: the Bright Side Study

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Conditions studied: Malnutrition

In brief

The objective is to increase caloric adequacy in patients who survived critical illness and are admitted to the ward by the use of a pro-active inclusive nutritional strategy including supplemental parenteral and/or enteral nutrition and/or oral nutritional supplements guided by indirect calorimetry. This enables the investigators to address, within a clinical/scientific context, a recently demonstrated but until now relatively neglected 'dark side' of patient care at UZ Brussel, comparable to limited global evidence : iatrogenic malnutrition of ICU survivors. The use of a newly developed clinical pathway and nutrition strategy (oral, enteral and parenteral) led by a single SPoC (Single Point of Contact) for patients surviving intensive care will have a clear objective: to address the nutritional deficit in all patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06023251

Run by

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

People needed

100

Starts

2023-10-04

Expected to finish

2026-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2024-03-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult ≥ 18 years
• ICU stay ≥ 7 days
• Ward stay ≥ 3 days
• Nutritional therapy not restricted
• Heterogeneous diseases

You may not qualify if…

• Patients < 18 years
• ICU < 7 days
• Ward stay < 3 days
• Advanced Care Planning with impact on nutritional therapy
• Patients with palliative care
• Metabolic derangements such as metabolic diseases
• Pregnancy

Where it is running

• UZ Brussel — Brussels, Belgium (enrolling)

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