Nutritional Screening in Cardiovascular Disease
ConditionCardiovascular Diseases
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age40-85
SponsorHull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
About this trial
This is a nutritional screening and assessment study conducted prior to heart surgery. The nutritional status of patients will be assessed by a series of questionnaires, blood/urine biomarkers and measurement of grip strength and body composition. The investigators will then evaluate of any of the assessments are linked with clinical outcomes following surgery. For example, how long do patients stop in the intensive care unit (ICU), in hospital and how many complications patients experience.
The investigators hope to use this important clinical data to understand how medical staff can identify a poor nutritional status and which patients may need nutritional support prior to surgery.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
None
Disqualifiers
All patients without proficiency in English that allows completion of questionnaires
Unable to provide written consent
Trial population
Patients undergoing routine NHS cardiac surgery
Trial design
Design model
Case-only
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
Nutritional Screening
BehavioralTo identify which nutritional screening approaches (nutritional questionnaires, biomarkers, sarcopenic obesity or grip strength are most strongly linked to surgical outcomes following cardiac surgery.
Treatment groups
250 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: Surgical- Group 11 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Time in ICU
The total time in hours spent in the ICU, calculated from ICU admission following cardiac surgery to ICU discharge to the general cardiology ward
Time frame
From ICU admission until ICU discharge, up to 30 days2
Complications post cardiac surgery
The number of Society of Cardio-thoracic Surgery register of complications
Time frame
Number of complications following cardiac surgery, up to 30 days3
Length of Hospital Stay
Length of hospital stay from admission to medical discharge
Time frame
From hospital admission until hospital discharge, up to 30 daysSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov