Inferior Vena Cava Diameter and Postpartum Hemorrhage

HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Other Immediate Postpartum Hemorrhage, With Delivery

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03732079

HaEmek

Details and patient eligibility

About

Excessive bleeding after normal birth or cesarean section is defined as blood loss of 1000 mL or more (clinically estimated) within 24 hours after birth. It occurs in about 5% among postpartum women. Postpartum hemorrhage is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women giving birth. Postpartum hemorrhage may lead to hemorrhagic shock, renal failure, respiratory failure, need for surgical intervention, blood transfusion and hysterectomy.

The cornerstone of effective treatment is rapid diagnosis and intervention in time. However, in a number of cases there is an underestimation of the volume of blood loss which may lead to delay in diagnosis and treatment. The consequences are even graver in women who delivered by a cesarean section, since unlike a normal birth in which the bleeding is external and visible, the bleeding is usually intra-abdominal, and so the delay in diagnosis may be even longer.

The Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) is a flexible blood vessel sensitive to intravascular blood volume, and its diameter varies accordingly. Its diameter reflects the pressure in the right atrium, which is a measure of the cardiac preload. A number of studies have shown that the IVC diameter changes, before the variations in vital and clinical signs.

Recently, IVC diameter has been assessed as an assessment of intravenous fluid balance in hemodynamically stable patients with a risk of sub-volume shock. The authors concluded that the IVC measurement is a good noninvasive method, compared to catheter insertion into the right atrium, and it is available as a bedside procedure.

In obstetrics the use of IVC to determine blood loos was not widely examined and there is no information regarding the use of IVC diameter as a predictor or as a detection method of postpartum bleeding.

In this study the investigators aim to examine the correlation between IVC diameter and the volume of postpartum blood loss.

Enrollment: 108 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women over the age of 18 after birth
• Single pregnancy
• Vaginal birth
• Term pregnancy (gestational age between week 37-42)
• The newborn is appropriate for gestational age (10-90 percentile)

Exclusion criteria

• Gestational or pre-pregnancy hypertension
• Heart, liver, or chronic kidney disease
• Women who delivered newborn with major malformation

Trial design

108 participants in 2 patient groups

Research group

Description:

Women with early postpartum hemorrhage.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound

Control group

Description:

Postpartum women without abnormal bleeding.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound