# Intestinal Lavage to Promote Enteral Feeding and Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Extremely Preterm Infants

> **NCT03631979** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Uppsala County Council, Sweden** · enrollment: 200 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Necrotizing Enterocolitis
- Time to Full Enteral Nutrition

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** Intestinal lavage with normal saline

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT03631979
- **Lead sponsor:** Uppsala County Council, Sweden
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER_GOV
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2018-08-15
- **Primary completion:** 2025-05-01
- **Final completion:** 2025-05-01
- **Target enrollment:** 200 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Recruitment was terminated early because of staffing limitations affecting delivery of the intervention, expiration of study funding, and slower-than-anticipated recruitment, which made completion of the planned sample size infeasible.
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-01


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03631979

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03631979, "Intestinal Lavage to Promote Enteral Feeding and Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Extremely Preterm Infants". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-09-03 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT03631979. Licensed CC0.

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