Effect of Laser on maternal complications during the Postpartum period
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- G08.686.702Episiotomy, Laceration of perineum during childbirth, unspecified,C12.050.351.625
- Registration Number
- RBR-3t8pw38
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal de Alfenas- Campus Santa Clara
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Age over 18 years; primiparous or multiparous; women after vaginal delivery with grade two, three, or four perineal laceration; women after vaginal delivery with episiotomy; approximation of the edges of the lesion by means of suturing (healing by first intention); pain graded in at least two, by the numerical scale of pain; ability to understand
Exclusion Criteria
Refusal to receive the protocol; presence of systemic or lesion-site infectious process; Birth of twins; hemodynamic instability; postpartum complications (hemorrhages); Use of medicines for associated diseases; Smoker; Diabetes mellitus or diabetes Gestational; neurological diseases; cancer
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain assessed by numerical scale and observation of the need to use analgesics through prescriptions. The assessments will take place between the 6th and 12th hour after birth, the 6th hour after the first assessment and the 12th hour after the first assessment. Assessments will take place before the application of photobiomodulation (laser). Totaling three evaluations and two applications. After 7 to 10 days after giving birth, the researcher will make a telephone call to question the woman about her pain. The analogue pain scale (0-10) will be used.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assessment of the healing process using the REEDA scale, which also They will take place between the 6th and 12th hour after birth, the 6th hour after the first assessment and the 12th hour after the first assessment and before the application of photobiomodulation (laser). Totaling three evaluations and 2 applications. After 7 to 10 days after giving birth, the researcher will make a telephone call to question the woman regarding wound healing. A Likert scale will be used (it has improved a lot or it has improved a little or it is the same or it has gotten a little worse or it has gotten a lot worse). Finally, 7 to 10 days after giving birth, via telephone call, the woman will be asked about her satisfaction with the treatment using a Likert scale (very satisfied, satisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, dissatisfied, very dissatisfied).