Observational Cohort Study on the Use of Parenteral Nutrition and Clinical Outcomes in Adult Critically Ill Patients

Launched by FRESENIUS KABI · Oct 28, 2019

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Age ≥18 years and ≤95 years, male or female
• • 2. Hospitalised in a medical, surgical, or trauma ICU for at least five consecutive calendar days and either admitted to the ICU during the predefined screening month or admitted to the ICU maximally 4 days before start of the screening month
• • 3. BMI ≥18.5 kg/m2 and ≤45 kg/m2
• • 4. Written informed consent or requirements of local/national ethical committee
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Burn injury
• • 2. Pre-existing neuromuscular or psychiatric disorders that preclude proper assessment of functional status
• • 3. Severe hypoxic brain injury or severe neurological diagnosis (e.g. meningitis, encephalitis, brain trauma, spinal cord injury) at the time of ICU admission that precludes proper assessment of functional status
• • 4. Receiving home parenteral nutrition at the time of ICU admission (e.g. due to short bowel syndrome)
• • 5. Receiving home enteral nutrition (tube feeding) at the time of ICU admission
• • 6. Chronic invasive or chronic non-invasive ventilatory support before ICU admission
• • 7. Patients with a legal representative in place before ICU admission
• • 8. Admission to the ICU for palliative care
• • 9. Previous participation in this study (if the screening month is repeated and a patient is re-admitted to the ICU during the repeated screening month, only ICU data collected for that patient during the original screening month will be included)
• • 10. Concurrent enrolment in a nutrition-related interventional study at the time of screening