Outcomes Following Pre-marking of Episiotomy Location

Sharon Davidesko MD

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Episiotomy; Complications; Episiotomy Infection; Episiotomy Extended by Laceration

Treatments: Other: Pre-marking of episiotomy location

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04719533

SOR-0089-20-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare short- and long-term outcomes of women following episiotomy during the second stage of labor, following marking of episiotomy location during the first stage of labor with those of women who underwent episiotomy without marking.

Full description

Purpose: To compare short- and long-term outcomes of women following episiotomy during the second stage of labor, following marking of episiotomy location during the first stage of labor with those of women who underwent episiotomy without marking.

Hypothesis: Women following episiotomy following pre-marking of the location will suffer from fewer short- and long-term complications compared to those without pre-marked episiotomy location.

Study type: prospective randomized-controlled trial

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women 18 years of age or older who present in active labour to our center and consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• women under 18 years of age or those who do not or are unable to provide informed consent to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre-marked episiotomy location

Experimental group

Description:

Women in this group will undergo pre-marking of episiotomy location

Treatment:

Other: Pre-marking of episiotomy location

No pre-marked episiotomy location

No Intervention group

Description:

Women in this group will not undergo pre-marking of episiotomy location