Evaluation of Post-voiding Residual Urine: a Before-after, Post-partum Study (RPM-Eval)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postpartum Women

Treatments: Procedure: Catheterization

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02597413

LOCAL/2015/MN-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of systematic catheter-drainage of urine for parturient women immediately in the delivery room on the occurrence of post-voiding urine residue.

Full description

Secondarily, we will evaluate the impact of systematic catheter-drainage of urine for parturient women immediately in the delivery room on the occurrence of acute urine retention (first voiding volume > 500cc) and on post-partum bacteriuria rates.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Paturient women admitted to the delivery room

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have been catheterized during the third trimester of the current pregnancy
• History of surgery on the urinary tract

Trial design

88 participants in 2 patient groups

Before group

Description:

Women in this group are included before the implementation of a strategy of systematic catheterization (they will not be catheterized).

After group

Description:

Women in this group are included after the implementation of a department-wide strategy of systematic catheterization. Intervention: catheterization

Treatment:

Procedure: Catheterization