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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03518684
Date of registration: 16/04/2018
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: American University of Beirut Medical Center
Public title: Obstetrical Gel Use to Shorten Labor and Prevent Lower Genital Tract Trauma
Scientific title: Obstetrical Gel Use to Shorten Labor and Prevent Lower Genital Tract Trauma: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: April 3, 2018
Target sample size: 160
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03518684
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Lebanon
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Age between 18 and 40 years

- Intended vaginal delivery

- Singleton baby in vertex presentation

- Low risk pregnancy at term (37-42 weeks of gestation)

- Estimated birth weight between 2000 g and 4500 g (clinically or by sonography)

- Signed written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Contraindications for vaginal delivery (placenta previa, active herpes infection,
etc…)

- Advanced cervical dilation (= 5 cm)

- Suspected amniotic infection (fever, foul smelling discharge, fetal tachycardia,
abdominal pain)

- Non reassuring fetal heart tracing

- Prolonged rupture of the membranes (24 hours)

- Suspected major fetal malformations

- Suspected cephalopelvic disproportion



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 40 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Labor Stage, Second
Intervention(s)
Drug: Natalis
Primary Outcome(s)
Reduction in the length of the second stage of labor [Time Frame: Second stage of labor, a reduction to 39.9 minutes from a calculated average of 66.5 minutes]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
OGY.EH.03
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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