Status:
COMPLETED
Malnutrition Assessment Tools in Surgery
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital of Crete
Conditions:
Malnutrition
Surgery--Complications
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-108 years
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the main malnutrition risk assessment tools in patients undergoing operations of general surgery.
Detailed Description
This is a multi centre prospective observational study including patients undergoing major/major+ operation of general surgery. Patients will be interviewed by surgical trainees and their malnutrition...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age \>18 years
- Patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery. Urgency of emergent operations is classified as follows, according to the clinical judgment of the surgeon, regarding the maximum time a patient could wait for surgery:
- Expedited (\>18 hours)
- 2B. Urgent (6-18 hours)
- 2A. Urgent (2-6 hours)
- 1\. Immediate (\<2 hours)
- Operations involving the gastrointestinal tract
- Magnitude of operation graded by POSSUM \[17,18\]:
- Major+ (examples include colonic resection abdominoperineal resection of the rectum, radical total gastrectomy, intestinal bypass, whipple resection)
- Major (examples include adhesiolysis, stoma formation, small bowel resection, anterior resection, cholecystectomy and exploration of the bile duct)
Exclusion
- Age \<18 years
- Magnitude of operation graded by POSSUM:
- Minor
- Intermediate
- Inability to perform nutritional assessment
- Inability to provide informed consent
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2022
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2024
Estimated Enrollment :
1650 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05393752
Start Date
May 1 2022
End Date
May 1 2024
Last Update
May 8 2024
Active Locations (2)
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1
Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Nicosia, School of Medicine, University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
2
Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Heraklion
Heraklion, Greece, 71110