Effect of Supine or Prone Position After Caesarean Birth

NCT01310153 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2018-08-31

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Summary

Respiratory Distress is a frequent clinical diagnosis of babies delivered by elective Caesarean birth. There has been no study comparing the efficacy of immediately positioning a newly born infant prone vs. supine for the first 30 60 seconds of life after delivery by Caesarean birth.

Conditions

  • Respiratory Distress
  • Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn
  • Delayed Transition of the Newborn
  • Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension

Interventions

PROCEDURE

prone positioning

newborn babies in prone positioning

PROCEDURE

Supine

newborn babies in supine positioning

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Montefiore Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Orna Rosen, MD · Montefiore Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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