Nuchal Cord Detection in Sonographic Evaluation by a First Year Resident.

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fetal Cord Entanglement

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03100929

0405-16-RMB

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to prove that minimal sonographic training for nuchal cord detection in an unexperienced first year medical resident is more than enough to detect the phenomenon. Patients undergoing elective cesarean section will undergo a routine ultrasound (that is performed to detect the fetal heart rate and the fetal presentation) during which the resident will attempt to detect nuchal cord. The resident will then attend the patient's surgery to verify the findings.

Full description

Patients undergoing elective cesarean section will undergo a routine ultrasound examination during which fetal heart rate, fetal presentation and nuchal cord presence will be documented. During surgery, after the fetus is delivered, presence or lack of nuchal cord will be documented.

The aim of the study is to show that minimal sonographic training may assist even an unexperienced sonographist in detection of such a subtle yet important phenomenon.

The study will be performed utilizing the newest resident in the OBGYN department.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 44 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any woman undergoing elective cesarean section.

Exclusion criteria

• None.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Elective cesarean section

Experimental group

Description:

Any patient undergoing elective cesarean section. Ultrasound

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound