Status:

COMPLETED

Safety Study of Feeding With Ginger Extract in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Lead Sponsor:

Shahid Beheshti University

Conditions:

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

An enteral diet supplemented with ginger extract in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients may be beneficial for gas exchange and could decrease duration of mechanical ventilation and len...

Detailed Description

Rationale: Clinical ARDS occurs primarily as the result of inflammatory injury to the alveoli producing diffuse alveolar damage. Objective: To evaluate the effects of an enteral diet enriched with gi...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Required positive pressure ventilation via endotracheal tube or tracheostomy and were on enteral nutrition support.
  • Also they had to have an acute onset of significantly impaired oxygenation with a PaO2 to FiO2 ratio equal or less than 200, bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on frontal chest radiograph and no clinical evidence of left atrial hypertension according to the American-European Consensus Conference on ARDS .
  • Patients had to be enrolled within 48 hours of developing these criteria.

Exclusion

  • Age younger than 18 years
  • Participation in other interventional trials in the previous 30 days
  • Neurological conditions that could impair weaning from ventilatory support,
  • Severe chronic respiratory disease
  • Pregnancy
  • Lactation
  • Active bleeding
  • Head trauma
  • Intracranial hemorrhage
  • Peptic ulcer
  • HIV infection
  • Food allergy
  • Morbid obesity
  • Malignancy or other irreversible conditions for which 6 months mortality was estimated to be 50% or more and who were receiving nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs or ketoconazole.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 1 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

32 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00958685

Start Date

January 1 2007

End Date

January 1 2009

Last Update

August 13 2009

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Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology

Tehran, Iran