Effects of oral clonidine pre-medication on intra-operative blood loss during caesarean section under sub-arachnoid block
- Conditions
- Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Registration Number
- PACTR202403873496250
- Lead Sponsor
- Self
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 160
Normotensive and mild to moderate hypertensive (controlled) pregnant women aged 18 to 45 years who were scheduled for elective caesarean section under SAB at the study centre
Those who consented to participate in the study.
?Patients below age 18 and above age 45years.
?Grandmultiparous women (parity greater or equal to 5).
?Patients with complications of pregnancy such as: placenta praevia, Abruptio placentae, pre-eclampsia with BP = 160/110mmHg, Eclampsia, pregnancy-induced hypertension or chronic hypertension in pregnancy with BP = 160/110mmHg.
?Emergency Caesarean sections
?Patients with Cardiovascular /Respiratory diseases
?Renal/hepatic disease patients
?Multiple gestations.
?Patients that took antihypertensive <24 hours before surgery.
?History of allergy to the study drug.
?Patients with height less or equal to 1.0m.
?Patients with previous caesarean section(s).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Volume of intra-operative blood loss
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Haemodynamic stability of patients, neonatal APGAR Scores, incidence of side effects like nausea, vomiting, shivering, sedation, hypotension etc. and the need for rescue analgesia