Effect of electronic fetal monitoring method used during labour on emergency caesarean section rates: START (STan Australian Randomised Trial).
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Reproductive Health and Childbirth - Childbirth and postnatal careintrapartum fetal monitoringchildbirthcaesarean section
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12618000086268
- Lead Sponsor
- Assoc Professor Chris Wilkinson
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 1818
Inclusion Criteria
Demographic: greater than or equal to 18 years of age ; capable of informed consent; literate in English; singleton fetus; cephalic presentation.
Exclusion Criteria
Less than 36weeks gestation; planned caesarean; placenta praevia or vasa praevia; fetal structural or functional cardiac abnormalities; any contraindication to scalp clip usage; does not have a clinical indication for continuous electronic fetal monitoring; women who have participated in this trial in a previous pregnancy.
Psychosocial questionnaire, interview and discrete choice experiment: Women who had severe adverse clinical outcomes - maternal, fetal or neonatal death.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method