Health Condition 1: O746- Other complications of spinal andepidural anesthesia during labor and delivery
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care PGIMER
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Pregnant women ( > 18 years) scheduled to undergo elective caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Refusal to consent for the study 2. Inability to read/understand the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) questionnaire in English/ Hindi 3. Parturients with a history of anxiety disorder and/or anxiolytic/psychotropic drug use 4. Those with any surgical or anaesthetic complication intraoperatively (including massive haemorrhage, conversion to general anaesthesia or the need to perform intravenous sedation)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To study the correlation between preoperative patient anxiety and post-spinal shivering in parturients scheduled to undergo elective caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia in a developing country setting.Timepoint: Baseline | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate the role of other possible risk factors for shivering after spinal anaesthesia in obstetric patients To estimate the incidence of post-spinal shivering in parturients scheduled for elective caesarean section in our settingTimepoint: Intraoperative | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactSai Jeevan P
PGIMER Chandigarh
Outcome results
None listed