PUSH-IT Continuing Enteral Feeds for Tracheostomy

Description

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate nutrition administration in the time around the tracheostomy in patients with breathing tubes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Will continuing nutrition up to the time of surgery (tracheostomy) decrease nutrition interruptions, thereby increasing food intake? * Does continuing nutrition up to the time of surgery increase instances of food going into the lungs or lung infections? Researchers will compare patients who have nutrition withheld 6 hours prior to surgery versus those who receive nutrition up until the time of surgery to see if there are differences in food intake, instances of food entering the lungs or lung infections.

Conditions

Tracheostomy Complication, Critical Illness, Nutritional Deficiency

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate nutrition administration in the time around the tracheostomy in patients with breathing tubes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Will continuing nutrition up to the time of surgery (tracheostomy) decrease nutrition interruptions, thereby increasing food intake? * Does continuing nutrition up to the time of surgery increase instances of food going into the lungs or lung infections? Researchers will compare patients who have nutrition withheld 6 hours prior to surgery versus those who receive nutrition up until the time of surgery to see if there are differences in food intake, instances of food entering the lungs or lung infections.

Prevent Unnecessary Surgeon Holds of Ingestions for Tracheostomy (PUSH-IT)

PUSH-IT Continuing Enteral Feeds for Tracheostomy

Condition
Tracheostomy Complication
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

West Palm Beach

St. Mary's Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, 33407

Kansas City

HCA Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64132

Buffalo

Erie County Medical Center (University at Buffalo), Buffalo, New York, United States, 14215

Allentown

Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, 18103

Columbia

University of South Carolina Sch of Medicine /Prisma Health Richland, Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 29203

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * 18 years or older
  • * admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)
  • * intubated and require tracheostomy
  • * under 18 years
  • * unable to obtain informed consent
  • * deemed clinically brain dead within 7 days of enrollment
  • * transitioned to comfort measures within 7 days of enrollment
  • * Pregnant patients
  • * Prisoners

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

State University of New York at Buffalo,

Marcy Jordan, PhD, STUDY_DIRECTOR, University at Buffalo

Study Record Dates

2026-12-31