The Effects of Keeping the Patient in a Sitting Position for One Minute After Spinal Anesthesia

Umraniye Education and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypotension; Spinal Anaesthesia

Treatments: Procedure: sitting position; Procedure: supine position

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03834259

GK12

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of keeping the patient in a sitting position for 1 minute after spinal anaesthesia in elective caesarean operations, primarily on the formation of hypotension and secondarily on nausea-vomiting, the need for ephedrine and the block characteristics.

Enrollment: 214 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 18 - 45 years,
• ASA physical status
• I - II,
• BMI of 25-30
• who were undergoing elective CS

Exclusion criteria

• vertebral anomaly,
• peripheral vascular disease,
• cardiovascular or psychiatric disorder,
• severe anemia,
• coagulopathy
• infection in the intervention region

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

214 participants in 3 patient groups

Group 1

Active Comparator group

Description:

12.5 mg 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine

Treatment:

Procedure: sitting position

Group 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

10 mg 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine

Treatment:

Procedure: supine position

Group 3

Active Comparator group

Description:

12.5 mg 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine

Treatment:

Procedure: supine position