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Effect of Pre-delivery Dexamethasone in Comparison With Betamethasone on Fetal Heart Trace

NCT07078786 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2025-08-12

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Summary

As baby grows inside the womb of mother, heart and other organs develop. The heart activity can be recorded by placing a transducer on the belly of mother. The tracing obtain provides information about heart rate, any increase or decrease in heart rate and how much it varies with time. Variation in heart rate along with increase is indicator of fetal well being. Some mothers are at high risk of pre-term birth that is baby delivery before 37 weeks of gestation. In such cases steroids are given to mother to accelerate lung development of the baby so that it can easily adapt to outside world. Dexamethasone and Betamethasone are commonly used steroids which can also effect fetal heart activity.

Conditions

  • Cardiotocography
  • Steroids

Interventions

DRUG

Betamethason Sodium Phosphate

Intramuscular injection of Betamethasone 12mg will be administered on 2 consecutive days

DRUG

Dexamethasone

two doses of 12mg of IM Dexamethasone given 24 hours apart

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan

    collaborator OTHER

  • Rawalpindi Medical College

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ifra Shafique, MBBS · Rawalpindi Medical Unviersity

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-13
Primary Completion
2025-10-15
Completion
2025-10-15
FDA Drug
Yes

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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