Comparison of Never Performing Episiotomy to Performing it in a Selective Manor

NCT02178111 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 237

Last updated 2016-11-17

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Summary

The study hypothesis is that not performing never episiotomies is safe and results are equivalent to performing episiotomies ina selective manor.

Conditions

  • Need of Episiotomy

Interventions

OTHER

Never perform episiotomy

In this group birth attendants will be sought to avoid at all cost episiotomy. The intention is to never perform episiotomy in this group.

PROCEDURE

episiotomy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria Inês Melo, MS · IMIP

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-07-31
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2014-09-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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