The study of body measurements on incidence of reduced blood pressure in pregnant patients undergoing cesarean section after giving spinal anaesthesia.

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services,

• Registration Number: CTRI/2022/01/039378
• Lead Sponsor: ESIC Medical College Gulbarga

Brief Summary

Spinal Anaesthesia is the most preferred anaesthetic method for elective cesarean section in parturient’s with low risk pregnancy. And hypotension following spinal anaesthesia is one of the most common complication that may lead to poor maternal and fetal outcomes. In most of the studies different variables have been suggested as influencing the ultimate spread of sensory blockade such as height, weight, body mass index of the patient and fetal weight, but the roles of these are controvertial and had little predictive value for the spread of spinal anaesthesia and incidence of hypotension. Various studies based on parameters like age, height, weight, body mass index, abdominal girth, vertebral column length, symphysiofundal height, waist to hip ratio,etc have been studied for assessing mainly the level of sensory blockade and dosage of drug in parturient’s, however none of the studies have been studied correlating the parameters like abdominal circumference, vertebral column length and symphysiofundal height and incidence of hypotension in parturient’s undergoing cesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Therefore this study is designed to assess the association between anthropometric parameters like abdominal circumference, vertebral column length and symphysiofundal height and incidence of hypotension in parturient’s undergoing cesarean section under spinal anaesthesia.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-01-14
• Last Update Posted: 2022-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

1 Term pregnant women aged between 18-45 years 2 ASA PS grade 1-111 undergoing cesarean section under spinal anaesthesia.

Exclusion Criteria

• 1 Multiple pregnancy 2 Morbid Obesity (BMI >40) 3 Height <145 cms & >170cms 4 Patients with spinal deformities and those who have undergone previous spine surgeries.
• 5 Contraindication to spinal anesthesia.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To assess the effect of maternal anthropometric parameters like abdominal circumference, vertebral column length and symphysiofundal height and incidence of hypotension	To assess the effect of maternal anthropometric parameters like abdominal circumference, vertebral column length and symphysiofundal height and incidence of hypotension during the study period.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
-The level of sensory blockade achieved .	-Baseline fetal parameters – APGAR score at 1 and 5 minutes , birth weight.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

ESIC Medical College, Gulbarga; 🇮🇳 Gulbarga, KARNATAKA, India

ESIC Medical College, Gulbarga

🇮🇳Gulbarga, KARNATAKA, India

Dr Priyanka Y Kanni

Principal investigator

9908290999

priyankakanni@gmail.com