Effects of a Complete Diet in Critically Ill Patients With Stress Hyperglycemia
Critical Illness, Hyperglycemia, Dietary Modification
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Critical Illness focused on measuring Critical illness, Hyperglycemia, Mechanical Ventilation, Enteral nutrition, T-Diet plus Diabet IR, Malnutrition, Insulin resistance, Metabolic stress
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients over 18 admitted to intensive care units (ICU), with mechanical ventilation.
- Patients receiving EN (enteral nutrition), for 5 days or more.
- ICU stay in 48 hours or less, in the time of study inclusion.
- Patients developing hyperglycemia in 48 hours of stay in ICU.
- Nutritional support initiation within 48 hours of stay in ICU.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a life expectancy less than 48 hours.
- Patients participating in another study.
- Patients with APACHE II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation) less than 10.
- Patients with BMI (body mass index) > 40 Kg/m2.
- Patients with Type I Diabetes.
- Patients on chronic treatment with corticosteroid dose above 1 mg / kg / day of methylprednisolone or equivalent.
- Pregnant patients.
- Patients taking lipid-lowering drugs.
Acute renal failure patients, defined by the following criteria:
- Serum creatinine greater than 4 mg / dL with acute rise higher than 0.5 mg / dl / day.
- Serum creatinine higher than 3 mg/dL.
- Diuresis < 0.3 ml/kg/h during 24 hours.
- Anury for 12 hours or more.
Hepatic failure patients, defined by the following parameters:
- Serious acute hepatic failure.
- Child degrees B-C.
- Serum bilirubin higher than 3 mg/dL.
- Patients with parenteral nutrition during study inclusion.
- Informed consent absence.
Sites / Locations
- Intensive Care Unit. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre
- Intensive Care Unit. Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
T-DIET PLUS DIABET IR
ISOSOURCE PROTEIN FIBRE
GLUCERNA SELECT
Patients of this group will receive T-Diet plus Diabet IR as unique nutritional support throughout the day, receiving 25 kcal / kg • day (from the first 48 hours after checking tolerance) via gastric or transpyloric
Patients of this group will receive ISOSOURCE PROTEIN FIBRE (Nestlé Nutrition) as unique nutritional support throughout the day receiving 25 kcal / kg • day (from the first 48 hours after checking tolerance) via gastric or transpyloric
Patients of this group will receive GLUCERNA SELECT (Abbott Laboratories) as unique nutritional support throughout the day, receiving 25 kcal / kg • day (from the first 48 hours after checking tolerance) via gastric or transpyloric