Clinical Trial: Measuring Total Energy Expenditure in Critically Ill Patients Using the Doubly Labelled Water Method

U.S., Dec. 2 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07256340) titled 'Measuring Total Energy Expenditure in Critically Ill Patients Using the Doubly Labelled Water Method' on Nov. 20.

Brief Summary: Critically ill patients, such as those with trauma or sepsis, experience high rates of malnutrition (up to 75%). Malnutrition worsens outcomes by increasing infection rates, hospital stays, mortality, and healthcare costs. Adequate nutrition is therefore crucial in the ICU. To ensure appropriate nutrition, accurate determination of total energy expenditure (TEE) is essential. In practice, predictive equations are often used, but these can misestimate TEE in ICU patients due to complex metabolic changes. Ind...