Perioperative Nutritional Optimization in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia
Boston Medical Center
Summary
A prospective pilot study examining nutritional supplements among vascular surgery patients with Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI). CLI patients have a high rate of malnutrition and has the potential to benefit greatly from nutritional intervention. The investigators plan to evaluate nutrition and functional status of patients by assessing objective lab values and the use of the hand grip strength test. Providing perioperative nutritional supplements to patients has potentially improved their nutritional status, which in turn may improve the patient's clinical status after surgery.
Description
Malnutrition continues to be a considerable public health issue in the United States and is known to be associated with negative health outcomes. Surgeons and hospitals have adopted preoperative nutritional screening and perioperative nutritional supplementation as best practice for modern treatment of general surgery patients. Nutritional optimization has been shown to improve outcomes in these patients and has become integrated as a key component of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol. Although much progress has been made towards optimizing perioperative nutritional status fo…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–99 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Critical Limb Ischemia Exclusion Criteria: * Female patients who are pregnant or lactating * Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 4 and 5 * Patients who are on dialysis
Interventions
- DrugEnsure Surgery Immunonutrition Shake
An FDA approved nutritional supplement. Prepackaged product designed to be administered one week prior to and one week post surgical procedures.
- DrugEnsure Enlive Advanced Nutrition Shake
An FDA approved nutritional supplement. Prepackaged product designed to be administered 2 weeks prior to and 2 weeks post surgical procedure for a period of one week. .
Location
- Boston Medical CenterBoston, Massachusetts