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Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Ragged Placental Membranes

NCT03459599 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 716

Last updated 2018-03-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In some centres, women are routinely given a course of antibiotics postnatally if ragged placental membranes were present at delivery. The investigators examined the necessity such an intervention.

Conditions

  • Endometritis Postpartum
  • Endometritis
  • Membranes; Retained

Interventions

DRUG

Prophylactic antibiotics

Amox-clav given to eligible women as per existing protocol, which is 625mg three times a day, for a week

OTHER

No prophylaxis (Amox-clav withheld)

Withholding Amox-clav, which is the current local practice for women with ragged placental membranes. This was replaced with appropriate counselling on signs and symptoms of endometritis, when and where women should present if the symptoms above occur. A follow up phone call was performed at 2 weeks and 6 weeks postpartum to ascertain well-being of patients

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Malaysia Sarawak

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sarawak General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hian Yan Voon, MRCOG · Sarawak General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-01
Primary Completion
2017-03-01
Completion
2017-08-01

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