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The Effect of Nasogastric Tube Placement on Complications in Patients With Small Bowel Obstruction - the SBO-TUBE Trial (SBO-TUBE)

8 juin 2026 mis à jour par: Daniel Wilhelms, University Hospital, Linkoeping

The Effect of Nasogastric Tube Placement on Complications in Patients With Small Bowel Obstruction - the SBO-TUBE Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a surgical emergency where the normal continuous bowel movements are hindered and approximately 8000-9000 patients visit the emergency department every year in Sweden due to SBO. A minority of these have evidence of intestinal injury, warranting emergency surgery, while the majority (70-90%) will have an initial plan for non-operative management with a nasogastric tube (NGT), placed to alleviate gastric pressure, reduce pain and prevent complications like aspiration pneumonia. The effectiveness of NGT in patients with SBO to prevent complications is unclear, with current data from observational data indicating increased risk of pneumonia in patients treated with NGT. Objective: To assess whether deferring the placement of a NGT in subjects with small bowel obstruction and planned for non-operative management leads to lower rates of respiratory complication compared to placing an NGT. Methods: This will be a randomized, controlled, open-label, multicenter study of patients with SBO and an initial plan for non-operative management. Patients will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to not receive an NGT (intervention) or receive an NGT (control) and monitored regularly until the SBO resolves spontaneously or through surgery, whichever comes first. The primary outcome will be a composite of pulmonary complications and treatment in a high dependency unit, analyzed as a superiority study with an intention-to-treat framework with secondary per-protocol and non-inferiority analysis. The trial will recruit 1000 patients. Secondary analysis includes health-economy, qualitative interviews, and long term (1 year) follow up. Discussion: The current management of NGT in SBO is based on clinical and guideline-based recommendations with limited supporting data. Available data, albeit observational with risk for selection bias, indicates increased risk of complications. This equipoise warrants further investigation to understand the true benefit of NGT in SBO. This study will provide high quality evidence of the ability of a NGT to prevent complications in SBO through its randomized, prospective design

Aperçu de l'étude

Statut

Recrutement

Les conditions

Intervention / Traitement

Type d'étude

Interventionnel

Inscription (Estimé)

1000

Phase

  • N'est pas applicable

Contacts et emplacements

Cette section fournit les coordonnées de ceux qui mènent l'étude et des informations sur le lieu où cette étude est menée.

Coordonnées de l'étude

  • Nom: Jens Wretborn, Associate Professor
  • Numéro de téléphone: +46101030000
  • E-mail: jens.wretborn@liu.se

Sauvegarde des contacts de l'étude

  • Nom: Erika Johannesson, MSc
  • Numéro de téléphone: +46101030000

Lieux d'étude

  • Suède
      • Linköping, Suède, 58561
        • Recrutement
        • Linköping University Hospital
        • Contact:
          • Jens Wretborn, Associate Professor
          • Numéro de téléphone: +46101030000
          • E-mail: jens.wretborn@liu.se
      • Motala, Suède, 59135
        • Recrutement
        • Motala Lasarett
        • Contact:
          • Jens Wretborn, Associate Professor
          • Numéro de téléphone: +46101030000
          • E-mail: jens.wretborn@liu.se
      • Värnamo, Suède, 33156
        • Recrutement
        • Värnamo Lasarett
        • Contact:
        • Sous-enquêteur:
          • Amanda Tyrsing, MD
        • Sous-enquêteur:
          • Kaj Li, MD

Critères de participation

Les chercheurs recherchent des personnes qui correspondent à une certaine description, appelée critères d'éligibilité. Certains exemples de ces critères sont l'état de santé général d'une personne ou des traitements antérieurs.

Critère d'éligibilité

Âges éligibles pour étudier

  • Adulte
  • Adulte plus âgé

Accepte les volontaires sains

Non

La description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Small bowel obstruction diagnosed on Computer Tomography

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Nasogastric Tube already places
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Dementia
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Previous stroke with documented persistent dysphagia
  • Planned for urgent surgery
  • Acute Massive Gastric Dilatation
  • Gastric outlet obstruction
  • Fundoplicatio/Inability to vomit
  • Signs of pneumonia/pneumonitis on initial diagnostic CT

Plan d'étude

Cette section fournit des détails sur le plan d'étude, y compris la façon dont l'étude est conçue et ce que l'étude mesure.

Comment l'étude est-elle conçue ?

Détails de conception

  • Objectif principal: Traitement
  • Répartition: Randomisé
  • Modèle interventionnel: Affectation parallèle
  • Masquage: Aucun (étiquette ouverte)

Armes et Interventions

Groupe de participants / Bras
Intervention / Traitement
Expérimental: Nasogastric Tube
This arm receives a nasogastric tube. Other management according to local guidelines.
Procédure: Nasogastric tube placement
The placement of a nasogastric tube from the nares to gastric ventricle.
Aucune intervention: No Nasogastric Tube
Nasogastric tube is deferred. Other management according to local guidelines

Que mesure l'étude ?

Principaux critères de jugement

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
Composite of Pulmonary complications and care at a high dependency unit or intensive care unit
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge

Pulmonary complications, any of:

  • Respiratory infection - treatment with antibiotics supported by suggestive findings on x-ray and/or laboratory findings
  • Respiratory failure - new pulse-oximetry values below 90% or an increased need for supplemental oxygen for an oxygen saturation above 90%, measured by pulse-oximetry or blood gases.
  • Pleural effusion - based on x-ray findings
  • Atelectasis - based on x-ray findings
  • Pneumothorax - based on x-ray findings
  • Bronchospasm - documented wheezing or increased effort breathing
  • Aspiration pneumonitis - treatment with antibiotics supported by suggestive findings on x-ray and/or laboratory findings and a clinical correlation to an event of vomiting/dysphagia High dependency unit or Intensive care unit

This study will use the definitions of pulmonary complications defined by Jammer et al:

Individual components of the composite endpoint will be reported and analysed separately as secondary endpoints.
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge

Mesures de résultats secondaires

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
Surgery
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Requiring surgery for their small bowel obstruction
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Death
Délai: From enrollment until 365 days
Death from any cause
From enrollment until 365 days
Time to functional recovery
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first

Time to functional recovery is seen as a more objective outcome compared to hospital length of stay, which may be influenced by other factors, not related to the disease. Functional recovery is a composite of the following components:

  • Independently mobile at preoperative level
  • Sufficient pain control with oral medications only
  • Ability to maintain necessary caloric intake with parenteral nutrition of fluids
  • No intravenous fluid administration
  • No clinical signs of infection
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Bowel perforation
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
As a finding, or complication, during surgery
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Bowel resection
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Bowel resection during surgery measured in cm.
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Hospital Length of Stay
Délai: Enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Length of stay in hospitals measured both as when the subject is ready to leave the hospital and when the subject actually leaves hospital
Enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Emergency Department Length of Stay
Délai: From emergency department registration until 2 days or emergency department discharge, whichever comes first.
The duration the research subject stays in the Emergency Department
From emergency department registration until 2 days or emergency department discharge, whichever comes first.
Time to resolved small bowel obstruction
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Time to resolvement of obstruction, defined as either; Water soluable contrast passing to the colon, or both ability to pass gas and ability for oral intake
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Readmission for small bowel obstruction
Délai: From enrollment until 365 days
Any readmission to hospital for small bowel obstruction
From enrollment until 365 days

Autres mesures de résultats

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
Recurrent Small Bowel Obstruction
Délai: From inclusion until 365 days
Admission for small bowel obstruction
From inclusion until 365 days
Health-related quality of life
Délai: Up to 30 days after hospital discharge
Measured by the EQ-5D-5L tool
Up to 30 days after hospital discharge
Number of required morphine-equivalents
Délai: From inclusion until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
From inclusion until 30 days or hospital discharge, whichever comes first
Nausea
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital admission, whichever comes first
Nausea, measured on a numeric rating scale from 0 to 10
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital admission, whichever comes first
Pain from Small bowel obstruction
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital admission, whichever comes first
Pain, measure on a numeric rating scale from 0-10
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital admission, whichever comes first
Pain from insertion of nasogastric tube
Délai: From enrollment until 2 days or emergency department discharge, whichever comes first
Patient experience pain on a NRS 0-10 scale
From enrollment until 2 days or emergency department discharge, whichever comes first
Discomfort from nasogastric tube
Délai: From enrollment until 30 days or hospital admission, whichever comes first
Patient-experience discomfort, rated on NRS (0-10) scale
From enrollment until 30 days or hospital admission, whichever comes first

Collaborateurs et enquêteurs

C'est ici que vous trouverez les personnes et les organisations impliquées dans cette étude.

Parrainer

University Hospital, Linkoeping

Collaborateurs

Linkoeping University
Region Jönköping County

Les enquêteurs

  • Chercheur principal: Jens Wretborn, Associate Professor, Clinical Department of Emergency Medicine in Linköping, Region Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Dates d'enregistrement des études

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Dates principales de l'étude

Début de l'étude (Réel)

27 mai 2026

Achèvement primaire (Estimé)

31 décembre 2027

Achèvement de l'étude (Estimé)

31 décembre 2028

Dates d'inscription aux études

Première soumission

30 avril 2026

Première soumission répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité

30 avril 2026

Première publication (Réel)

8 mai 2026

Mises à jour des dossiers d'étude

Dernière mise à jour publiée (Réel)

11 juin 2026

Dernière mise à jour soumise répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité

8 juin 2026

Dernière vérification

1 juin 2026

Plus d'information

Termes liés à cette étude

Mots clés

Termes MeSH pertinents supplémentaires

Autres numéros d'identification d'étude

  • 2026-00330-01

Informations sur les médicaments et les dispositifs, documents d'étude

Étudie un produit pharmaceutique réglementé par la FDA américaine

Non

Étudie un produit d'appareil réglementé par la FDA américaine

Non

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