EFFECT OF INTRAVENOUS TRANEXAMIC ACID IN REDUCING BLOOD LOSS DURING AND AFTER ELECTIVE CAESAREAN SECTION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT TEACHING HOSPITAL: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY
- Conditions
- Blood loss during and after caesarean section
- Registration Number
- PACTR202011872201172
- Lead Sponsor
- JEMIRIGBE OMAWUMI DARLINGTO
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 148
Age between 20 to 40 years.
Parity- 1 - 4
Gestational age of 37-40 weeks.
Singleton live fetus with reassuring fetal heart rate.
Elective repeat CS.
Refusal of the patient to give consent.
Known allergy to intravenous tranexamic acid.
Multiple pregnancies.
Antepartum haemorrhage.
Co-existing uterine fibroids.
Macrosomic baby- birth weight =4kg.
Intrauterine fetal death.
Preeclampsia.
Others are history of thromboembolic disease, medical conditions such as major liver, heart, kidney, brain and bleeding disorders, anticoagulant therapy, patients requiring blood transfusion due to anaemia and polyhydramnios. The medical conditions will be excluded from thorough history and examination of the patient and those with a positive history and examination findings suggestive of these medical conditions will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Amount of blood loss during and after caesarean section.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Additional uterotonic drugs.;2.Blood transfusion. ;3.Surgical interventions.;Maternal and fetal side effects.