Clinical trials: Parturients in Labour
Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage
Comparative Study on the Effects of Sublingual Misoprostol in Addition to Standard AMTSL in Low Risk Parturients in LASUTH, Ikeja.
Postpartum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal haemorrhage globally. With active management of labour 3 to 16.5% of parturients still experience postpartum haemorrhage.
- Trial name
- NCT02424201
- Testing
- Misoprostol, vitamin c
- Volunteers
- 660 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lagos State University
Obesity
Ultrasound Imaging For Facilitating Labour Epidurals in Obese Parturients
The efficacy of an epidural depends mainly on accurate placement of the catheter in the epidural space. Therefore, identification of the epidural space is the most vital part of the procedure.
- Trial name
- NCT00439998
- Testing
- Ultrasound
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 54 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital