• Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Sep 2024

    Prokinetic agents in adult intensive care unit patients (PATIENCE)-An international inception cohort study protocol.

    • Vera Crone, MøllerMorten HylanderMHDepartment of Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Anders Perner, Waleed Alhazzani, Anders Granholm, Laura Rindom Krogsgaard, Abdulrahman Al-Fares, Johanna Hästbacka, Marlies Ostermann, Carmen A Pfortmueller, Richard Ferrer, Annika Reintam Blaser, Martin I Sigurdsson, Olof Wall, Eric Keus, Wojciech Szczeklik, and Mette Krag.
    • Department of Intensive Care, Holbæk Hospital, Holbæk, Denmark.
    • Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2024 Sep 30.

    BackgroundFeeding intolerance is common in critically ill patients and can lead to malnutrition. Prokinetic agents may be used to enhance the uptake of nutrition. However, the evidence on the effectiveness and safety of prokinetic agents is sparse, and there is a lack of data on their use in intensive care units (ICU).MethodsWe will conduct an international 14-day inception cohort study of 1000 acutely admitted adult ICU patients. Data will be collected from ICU admission and daily during ICU stay for up to 90 days. The primary outcome will be the proportion of ICU patients who receive prokinetic agents. Secondary outcomes include mortality, days alive without life support, days alive out of ICU, days alive out of hospital (all within 90 days) and the number of patients with one or more serious adverse events.ResultsWe will present data on the use of prokinetic agents descriptively and use Cox regressions with death and ICU discharge as competing events to evaluate the association between patient characteristics and the use of prokinetic agents. We will use extended Cox models with time-varying covariates and linear regression models to assess the associations between the use of prokinetic agents and the secondary outcomes.ConclusionThe outlined international cohort study will provide valuable epidemiological data on the use of prokinetic agents in adult, acutely admitted ICU patients.© 2024 The Author(s). Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica Foundation.

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