NCT02456753

Assesment by Ultrasonography of the Perineal-cephalic Distance

Assesment by Ultrasonography of the Perineal-cephalic Distance in Consistence With the Notion of Clinical Fetal Head Engagement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 411 (actual)
• Sponsor: Lille Catholic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The practice of ultrasounds increases in delivery rooms every year. Indeed, this method can help to visualize elements that may not be observable after clinical examination. Moreover, it is known that a fetal head engagement can lead to an instrumental extraction and in case of error, which happens in some cases, fetal and maternal risks are possible. These elements led to the investigators' hypothesis which is that a trans-perineal ultrasonography may facilitate the evaluation of a clinical fetal head engagement in case of doubt.

Detailed description

It's a monocentric, transversal, clinical trial regarding women giving birth at the GHICL's hospital Saint Vincent de Paul. Clinical examinations will be done by the midwives following the indications given on the clinical form. A trans-perineal echography will then be done by technical operators following the ultrasonography form. These examinations will only last a few minutes, no further tests will be done afterwards.

Conditions

• Ultrasonography, Prenatal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	trans-perineal ultrasonography	Assesment of the fetal head-perineum distance via a trans-perineal ultrasonography

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2015-05-28
• Last updated: 2016-09-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France