Feeding Premature Infants During Non-invasive Respiratory Support

February 21, 2019 updated by: Liron Borenstein MD, Rambam Health Care Campus

Feeding Very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) Premature Infants (<1500g) During Non-invasive Respiratory Support- Continuous Drip Vs. Bolus Gavage Feeding

A randomized control trial comparing bolus gavage feeds to continuous feed among premature infants supported by non-invasive respiratory support

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

100

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Infants <1500gr, on non-invasive respiratory support
  • Feeding>20 ml/kg/day

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Major congenital malformations
  • Unstable infants because of sepsis, central nervous system, cardiac or other significant morbidities
  • Gastrointestinal morbidity such as spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) and necrotising enterocolitis (NEC).

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Bolus gavage feeds
Bolus gavage feeds over 15-30 minutes
Feeds will be given via nasogastric tube over 15-30 min versus 2 hr
Experimental: Continuous feeds
Continuous feeds over 2.0 hrs
Feeds will be given via nasogastric tube over 15-30 min versus 2 hr

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Oxygenation instability as documented by oxygen saturation histograms
Time Frame: before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation
before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation
Time to full feeds (TFF) defined as full enteral gavage feeding of 150 cc/Kg/day
Time Frame: before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation
before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Respiratory-length of respiratory support
Time Frame: before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation
before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation
Incidence of Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) as defined by the medical team
Time Frame: before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation
before dischatge home at an average of 40 weeks gestation

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Liron Borenstein-Levin, MD, Rambam Health Care Campus

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

October 1, 2017

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

December 1, 2021

Study Completion (Anticipated)

June 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 20, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 21, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

February 25, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 25, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 21, 2019

Last Verified

February 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Feeding on NIPPV

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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