Description Module
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 3:19 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 3:19 AM
NCT ID:
NCT07109505
Brief Summary:
Older surgical patients commonly have malnutrition, and there is evidence these patients have increased risk for poor physical and brain recovery after surgery and anesthesia. There are scientific-based recommendations to provide nutritional supplements to support recovery. However, to date these recommendations do not address a broad group of nutrients likely to reverse common deficiencies. Team members have created a palatable, broad-spectrum and stable nutritional shake that we will give to patients after surgery. We propose to test the nutritional shake in frail older surgical patients at Dartmouth Health to determine if a nutrition shake provided after surgery improves recovery of physical function and cognitive abilities. Half the patients will receive the shake and the other will receive the standard of care postoperative nutritional instructions after surgery. We will collect information regarding physical function and cognitive abilities of all the patients while in the hospital and 90 days after surgery. We will use this data to apply for funding for a powered randomized trial to determine the role of nutrition in optimizing physical and cognitive recovery from surgery in older patients.
Detailed Description:
We will recruit a cohort of community dwelling patients, age 70 years and older for elective major abdominal and orthopedic surgery. Demographics, medical history, medications will be obtained from the electronic health record and confirmed with the patient. Patients randomized to the nutrition shake arm will receive a provided daily nutritional shake (starting when they leave the hospital and for 1-month after hospital discharge). The shake consists of a comprehensive panel of essential nutrients to support maintenance of muscle, metabolic and brain health.
Study:
NCT07109505
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT07109505