epidural space depth in relation to BMI
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O80-O82- Encounter for delivery
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/01/048672
- Lead Sponsor
- Dinesh T
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Term parturients
Exclusion Criteria
Patients who are refusing
Psychiatric patients
Pre eclampsia and Eclampsia patients
Patients with obvious spine deformity
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The Skin to lumbar epidural space distance increases with increase in the BMI in term parturientsTimepoint: at baseline
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To know the average skin to epidural space distance with respect to BMITimepoint: at around 1 year
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