Placental Cord Drainage After Vaginal Delivery

Ain Shams University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Loss

Treatments: Other: Cord drainage; Other: Cord clamping

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03487341

AS1751

Details and patient eligibility

About

Placental Cord Drainage after Vaginal Delivery A randomized clinical trial

Enrollment: 600 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Singleton pregnancy.
• Pregnancy with vertex presentation.
• Gestational age37 up to 42 weeks
• Patient expected to have spontaneous vaginal delivery.
• Maternal age 18 years old or more.

Exclusion criteria

• Previous history of Postpartum hemorrhage.
• Antepartum hemorrhage
• Multiple pregnancies
• Instrumental deliveries
• Coagulation disorders
• Over distended uterus (hydramnios, large fetus).
• Patient with extensive extended vaginal or cervical tear.
• Rupture uterus.
• Secondary arrest of cervical dilatation.
• Persistent occipito-posterior.
• Deep transverse arrest of fetal head.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

Cord drainage

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Cord drainage

Cord clamping

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Cord clamping