Mar 16, 2022

Remote ischemic conditioning in necrotizing enterocolitis: study protocol of a multi-center phase II feasibility randomized controlled trial

Pediatric surgery international
Niloofar Ganji, Bo Li, Irfan Ahmad, Alan Daneman, Poorva Deshpande, Vijay Dhar, Simon Eaton, Ricardo Faingold, Estelle B Gauda, Nigel Hall, Salhab El Helou, Mustafa H Kabeer, Jae H Kim, Alice King, Michael H Livingston, Eugene Ng, Martin Offringa, Elena Palleri, Mark Walton, David E Wesson, Tomas Wester, Rene M H Wijnen, Andrew Willan, Rosanna Yankanah, Carlos Zozaya, Prakesh S Shah, Agostino Pierro
CONCLUSIONS: The newly established NEC consortium has generated novel data on NEC diagnosis and defined the feasibility parameters for the introduction of a novel treatment in NEC. This phase II RCT will inform a future phase III RCT to evaluate the efficacy and safety of RIC in early-stage NEC.