The Effect of Rectus Muscle Approximation at Cesarean Delivery on Pain Perceived After Operation

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Postoperative

Treatments: Procedure: Rectus muscle approximation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03306953

5678

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective randomized controlled study to determine the clinical outcome of rectus muscle re-approximation at Cesarean delivery.

Full description

This is a prospective randomized controlled study to determine the clinical outcome of rectus muscle re-approximation at Cesarean delivery. Postoperative pain will be assessed in 2 groups. Rectus muscle approximation will be done to the first group. The second group will be the control group.

Enrollment: 280 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women who will undergo first elective cesarean section
• Singleton pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• Previous abdominal or pelvic surgery
• Medical or psychiatric disease
• Previous pelvic inflammatory disease
• Obesity
• Allergy to analgesics

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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280 participants in 2 patient groups

Rectus muscle approximation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Three sutures will be done for the the purpose of rectus muscle approximation in cesarean section.

Treatment:

Procedure: Rectus muscle approximation

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No approximation for the rectus muscle will be done for the control group in cesarean section.