To find out the safest effective dose of oxytocin in non labouring pregnant patients
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O754- Other complications of obstetric surgery and procedures
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2019/05/019268
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospiytal
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All non-laboring parturient , whether preeclamptics who are receiving magnesium sulfate therapy or normotensives without magnesium sulfate therapy, posted for elective cesarean section under spinal anesthesia will be enrolled.
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria will include patient refusal, need for general anesthesia, presence of labor (defined as cervical dilatation of 3 cm or more), history of PPH or more than one previous uterine surgery as well as bleeding disorders, and presence of abnormal placentation and uterine fibroid. Those with any contraindication to spinal block such as hemodynamic instability, infection at site of injection, coagulopathy (thrombocytopenia with platelet count <100,000/mm3) etc. will also be excluded
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The calculated ED90 of prophylactic oxytocin infusion in both cohorts.Timepoint: The infusion will be continued from cord-clamping to end of surgery.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ilTimepoint: Nil