Measuring Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Using Mercury and Automated Device (PRAM)

St George Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Pre Eclampsia; Pregnancy

Treatments: Device: Automated blood pressure recording device Omron HEM 705CP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00809666

00/41 Brown

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the PRAM study was to determine whether women diagnosed with hypertension in pregnancy, using the traditional mercury device, have the same pregnancy outcomes when blood pressure is measured by either an automated device or a mercury device throughout the pregnancy.

Enrollment: 220 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 16 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women with a diagnosis of hypertension in pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• non-pregnant and normotensive pregnancy women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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220 participants in 1 patient group

Mercury

No Intervention group

Description:

All subsequent blood pressure recording done using mercury sphygmomanometry

Treatment:

Device: Automated blood pressure recording device Omron HEM 705CP