NCT01954186

When and How to Administer Oxytocin for Active Management of Third Stage of Labour

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 600 (actual)
• Sponsor: Etlik Zubeyde Hanim Womens' Health and Teaching Hospital · Unknown
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To compare the efficacy of the route and timing of oxytocin administration for Active management of third stage of labour (AMTSL).

Detailed description

Our objective is to determine the most efficient route and timing of oxytocin administration by measuring the duration of third stage of labour, quantitative blood during the first hour after delivery and comparing haemoglobin and haematocrit changes and the need for additional interventions in patients who had either a spontaneous labour or received labour augmentation with oxytocin.

Conditions

• Postpartum Bleeding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	intravenous & intramuscular oxytocin	intravenous or intramuscular 10 iu oxytocin
PROCEDURE	after delivery of the fetus & when anterior shoulder seen	oxytocin 10 iu after the delivery of the fetus or when the anterior shoulder was seen after the fetal head was delivered

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-10-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2013-10-01
• Last updated: 2013-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)