Risk factors for obstetric post-spinal shivering
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O746- Other complications of spinal andepidural anesthesia during labor and delivery
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/10/037518
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care PGIMER
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Pregnant women ( > 18 years) scheduled to undergo elective caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Refusal to consent for the study
2. Inability to read/understand the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) questionnaire in English/ Hindi
3. Parturients with a history of anxiety disorder and/or anxiolytic/psychotropic drug use
4. Those with any surgical or anaesthetic complication intraoperatively (including massive haemorrhage, conversion to general anaesthesia or the need to perform intravenous sedation)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To study the correlation between preoperative patient anxiety and post-spinal shivering in parturients scheduled to undergo elective caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia in a developing country setting.Timepoint: Baseline
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate the role of other possible risk factors for shivering after spinal anaesthesia in obstetric patients <br/ ><br>To estimate the incidence of post-spinal shivering in parturients scheduled for elective caesarean section in our settingTimepoint: Intraoperative