Early Oral Intake Following Cesarean Surgery

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery; Obstetrics

Treatments: Procedure: Oral Intake following admittance to the postpartum ward

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00370708

1383FK

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study we are trying to compare the safety and financial benefit of starting the realimentation early versus conventional oral intake following the Cesarean surgery in Iran.

Full description

Cesarean delivery is announced to constitute 50% of deliveries in the Capital and 39% of all the deliveries nationwide, which is far beyond the acceptable international normal range, according to the official site of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran [http://www.mohme.gov.ir/HNDC/Indicators/Simaye_Salamt/Simaye_Salamat.htm]. This high rate of elective cesarean deliveries might be due to several reasons which are far beyond the scope of this study. Here we tried to see whether the reduction in the time of hospitalization for these patients is safe at the expense of earlier oral realimentation and to see whether this strategy increases the patients' satisfaction or not.

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Women who had elective cesarean deliveries under regional anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

1. Receiving general anesthesia, magnesium sulfate or insulin.
2. Coming across an intraoperative bowel injury.
3. Having any medical or gastrointestinal problem that prohibits early feeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind