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Register: Netherlands Trial Register
Last refreshed on: 27 May 2013
Main ID:  NTR885
Date of registration: 02/02/2007
Primary sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center, Sophia Children's Hospital
Public title: The effect of intermittent bolus nasogastric milk feeding versus semi-continuous milk feeding in preterm infants on TOLerance.
Scientific title: The effect of intermittent bolus nasogastric milk feeding versus semi-continuous milk feeding in preterm infants on TOLerance. - The TOL-study
Date of first enrolment: 5/2/2006
Target sample size: 250
Recruitment status: complete
URL:  http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=885
Study type:  intervention
Study design:  Randomised: Yes; Masking: None; Control: Placebo; Group: Parallel; Type: [default]  
Countries of recruitment
The Netherlands
Contacts
Name: J.B.  Goudoever, van
Address:  Erasmus Medical Center, Sophia Children's Hospital P.O. Box 2060 3000 CB Rotterdam The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)10 4636363
Email: j.vangoudoever@erasmusmc.nl
Affiliation: 
Name: J.B.  Goudoever, van
Address:  Erasmus Medical Center, Sophia Children's Hospital P.O. Box 2060 3000 CB Rotterdam The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)10 4636363
Email: j.vangoudoever@erasmusmc.nl
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Admission to neonatal intensive care unit within 24 hrs after birth;
2. Gestational age under 32 weeks;
3. Birth weight less than 1750 grams.

Exclusion criteria: 1. Simultaneous participation in another trial of which the intervention may influence this trials endpoints;
2. Congenital gastrointestinal obstructions like duodenal atresia, anal atresia, etc.;
3. Any disease entity known to encompass impaired growth other than small gestational age;
4. No informed consent.


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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Feeding tolerance, Premature infants, Intermittent feeding, Semi-continuous feeding

Intervention(s)
Bolus intermittent nasogastric feeding
Primary Outcome(s)
To assess the effect on both feeding regimes on feeding tolerance. Primary objective is days to reach full enteral feedings, defined as ¡Ý 120 mL/kg/d.
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Secondary objective is number of feeding interruptions, days on total parenteral nutrition and number of apnea episodes per day;
2. To assess somatic growth in both feeding regimes. To evaluate this variable, the following items will be used: days to regain birth weight, rates of weight gain, knemometry and head circumference;
3. To assess complications in both groups measured as catheter related sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis.
Secondary ID(s)
ISRCTN42413683
N/A
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Erasmus Medical Center, Sophia Children's Hospital
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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