Clinical Trial: Uterine Flora During Elective and Urgent Cesarean Sections

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: Uterine Flora During Elective and Urgent Cesarean Sections and Its Relationship to Postpartum Complications.

Brief Summary: Hypothesis: The bacterial flora of the uterus during elective Cesarean sections differs from the uterine flora during non-elective Cesarean sections. We want to study whether the uterine flora can predict post-cesarean febrile morbidity and endometritis.

Detailed Summary:

Objective: To evaluate the uterine flora at the time of elective and non-elective cesarean sections and to study the relationship to the development of postpartum fever and/or endometritis.

Methods: Eight-hundred women who will be delivered by cesarean section will be enrolled in this study. Cultures will be obtained during the surgery from the open uterine cavity after removal of the placenta. Data regarding postpartum morbidity would be collected.

Sponsor: Western Galilee Hospital-Nahariya

Current Primary Outcome: To compare bacteriological growth between elective and non-elective cesarean section [ Time Frame: 5 years ]

Original Primary Outcome:

Current Secondary Outcome: To study the various bacteria growth in the uteri, and to compare type of bacteria to post-op morbidity [ Time Frame: 5 years ]

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: Western Galilee Hospital-Nahariya

Dates:
Date Received: July 11, 2007
Date Started: January 2005
Date Completion:
Last Updated: March 30, 2009
Last Verified: March 2009