NCT00809666

Measuring Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Using Mercury and Automated Device

A Prospective Randomised Study of Automated Versus Mercury Blood Pressure Recordings in Pregnancy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 220 (actual)
• Sponsor: St George Hospital, Australia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the PRAM study was to determine whether women diagnosed with hypertension in pregnancy, using the traditional mercury device, have the same pregnancy outcomes when blood pressure is measured by either an automated device or a mercury device throughout the pregnancy.

Conditions

• Hypertension
• Pregnancy
• Pre Eclampsia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Automated blood pressure recording device Omron HEM 705CP	All subsequent blood pressure recordings done using the automated device

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-05-01
• Primary completion: 2006-09-01
• Completion: 2006-09-01
• First posted: 2008-12-17
• Last updated: 2008-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia