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Register: SLCTR
Last refreshed on: 27 April 2013
Main ID:  SLCTR/2011/010
Date of registration: 25/07/2011
Primary sponsor: Faculty of Medicine, Colombo
Public title: Anticipatory management vs standard management of postpartum haemorrhage
Scientific title: Anticipatory management vs standard management of postpartum haemorrhage
Date of first enrolment: 31/7/2011
Target sample size: 126 in each arm
Recruitment status: Pending
URL:  http://www.slctr.lk/trial_details.asp?reg_id={B609ECE3-CC78-429B-A2BC-9B803AF4A88D}
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  “Randomised controlled trial. All antenatal mothers who are attending routine clinics at 36 or more weeks of POG will be recruited after informed consent. Consenting mothers with continuous fresh bleeding following vaginal delivery will be randomized”  
Countries of recruitment
Sri Lanka
Contacts
Name: Prof. Hemantha Senanayake 
Address:  Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
Telephone: 0714762176
Email: senanayakeh@gmail.com
Affiliation: 
Name: Prof. Hemantha Senanayake 
Address:  Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Colombo
Telephone: 0714762176
Email: senanayakeh@gmail.com
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Giving birth after 36 Weeks of amenorrhea

•Post-partum haemorrhage due to uterine atony (recognized by continuing bleeding not responding to uterine massage and excluding other causes after examination)

Exclusion criteria: •Anomalies of hemostasis before labour

•Anticoagulant treatment

•Patients with death in utero fetuses

•Diagnosed patients with placenta accreta or percreta


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Age maximum:
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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH)
Intervention(s)
Intervention group will receive anticipatory management protocol while the control group will receive standard management protocol.
Standard management.

If visually assessed blood loss is and#8805; 500ml or if cardiovascular instability initiate PPH management. Anticipatory Management.

If there is continuous fresh bleeding after delivery of the placenta not responding to uterine massage, initiate PPH management
Primary Outcome(s)
Need for use of balloon tamponade to control PPH
Secondary Outcome(s)
• Percentage of women who did not develop PPH in the standard treatment arm

• Need for additional intervention after initial PPH treatment

• Use of additional doses of oxytocin/ ergometrine

• Surgical interventions

• Compressive sutures

• Systematic pelvic devascularization (Uterine, Internal iliac artery ligation)

• Hysterectomy

• Change in hemoglobin from pre-delivery to postpartum

• Receipt of blood transfusion Need for massive blood transfusion (>5 units of blood)

• Maternal death
Secondary ID(s)
Nil known
Source(s) of Monetary Support
None
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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