Placental Cord Drainage Versus no Placental Drainage in the Management of Third Stage of Labour

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Obstetric Delivery
• Interventions: Procedure: placental cord drainage; Procedure: non placemtal cord drainage

• Registration Number: NCT03137810
• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University

Brief Summary

The aim of this work is to compare the effectiveness of placental cord drainage with no drainage in reducing the duration and blood loss in 3rd stage of labour.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-01-01
• Study First Submitted: 2017-04-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-04-30
• Study First Posted: 2017-05-03
• Status Verified: 2017-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-08-13
• Last Update Posted: 2017-08-16
• Primary Completion: 2017-11-01
• Study Completion: 2017-11-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

• Full term Uncomplicated singleton pregnancy Pregnancy with vertex presentation Patients expected to have spontaneous vaginal delivery

Exclusion Criteria

• Over distended uterus(hydramnios.large fetus) Previous history of postpartum haemorrhage Known coagulation disorder Haemoglobin less than 8 g/dl Ante partum haemorrhage Multiple pregnancies Instrumental delivery

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
placental cord drainage	placental cord drainage	In 90 women after vaginal delivery of the baby, the placental end of the cut umbilical cord 1st will be clamped for few seconds and then unclamped and left open to drain blood in a vessel until flow stoped. This will prevent the drained blood from getting mixed with blood lost in the 3rd stage.
Non placental cord drainage	non placemtal cord drainage	In 90 women after vaginal delivery of the baby placental end of the cut umbilical cord will be kept clamped.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Duration of the third stage of labour	within 15 min of delivery of baby

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Amount of blood loss	FIRST 24 HOURS
retained placenta	1ST HOUR OF DELIVERY
Manual removal of placenta	1HOUR OF DELIVERY
Changes in maternal haematocrit (Hct) after birth	1ST 24 HOURS
blood transfusion	1ST 24 HOURS

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ain shams university maternity hospital; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt