Health Condition 1: O742- Cardiac complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery Health Condition 2: O746- Other complications of spinal andepidural anesthesia during labor and delivery
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Pregnant women with 1 age 18 years and above 2 with a singleton pregnancy 3 ASA status 2 4 with full term pregnancy 5 scheduled to undergo elective caesarean delivery
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Pregnant women with any of these problems including 1 hypertensive disease of pregnancy 2 cardiac or cerebrovascular disease 3 BMI > 35 kg/m2 4 fetal prematurity 5 fetal abnormalities 6 not consenting for spinal anaesthesia Withdraw Criteria: 1 patients who has excessive bleeding requiring additional uterotonics 2 need to convert from spinal anaesthesia to general anaesthesia 3 inadequate block height
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Incidence of hypotension between two groupsTimepoint: Blood pressure (BP) will be measured at 2 min intervals beginning immediately after spinal injection till baby delivery and at 5 minutes interval after baby delivery for 60 minutes. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The frequency of administering 3 mg bolus of Inj. Mephentermine between two groupsTimepoint: Post spinal hypotension (defined as drop in systolic blood pressure more than 20% from baseline) will be treated with 3 mg of Inj.Mephentermine. This will be repeated after every BP recording until systolic blood pressure returns to baseline value. | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute