Oral Feeding During Established Labor at Our Institution

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Labor

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire to assess of the application of the current French guidelines as to fasting during labor.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03242356

69HCL17_0454

Details and patient eligibility

About

Current French guidelines allow oral intake of clear fluid in women in established labor under epidural analgesia. To date, no study assessed how these guidelines are followed in clinical practice. This study aims to assess the current practices as to the fasting during the labor at our institution, while assessing the experience and the expectations of the parturients (level of comfort or discomfort related to fasting).

Enrollment: 195 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adult woman who has been in labor in our hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Patient refusal
• Elective cesarean section, or emergency cesarean section in a woman not in labor
• Intrauterine fetal death
• Therapeutic abortion
• Patient consent not available (for example, in case of severe post-partum hemorrhage)