Pregnancy and Childbirth caesarean section
Conditions
Interventions
ultrashort stay postoperative management protocol following uncomplicated caesarean section
Traditional postoperative management protocol
Sponsors
Self
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. The patient was a booked antenatal patient and was being attended to in the facilities, and consequently has an antenatal record. 2. The patient had just had an uncomplicated caesarean delivery. 3. The patient is fully awake. 4. Informed verbal and written consent had been obtained.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Presence of any obstetric/medical condition that required co-management with other specialities post-delivery, and may therefore warrant prolonged hospital stay. 2. Immunosuppressed women or those with HIV infection who already had features of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). 3. Patients who had prolonged labour or conditions that increase risk of sepsis, like prolonged pre-labour rupture of membranes
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary outcome variables are the time interval to return of routine household function (breast feeding, bathing and changing diapers for the baby, house chores/house-keeping, cooking and coitus) in number of days; time to return of community function (going to market, shopping malls, worship centres, social functions, visits, work/business and travel). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcome variables include patient perception of caesarean section and satisfaction with care; rate of wound sepsis (painful redness and swelling or induration of wound edges, seropurulent/purulent discharge or dehiscence), spinal headache, puerperal sepsis, and readmission to hospital; and care-giver’s perception of caesarean section and patients’ return to function. | — |
Countries
Nigeria
Contacts
Public ContactDibo Pughikumo
Department of Physiology College of Health Sciences Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island Bayelsa State Nigeria.
Outcome results
None listed