The Role of Oxytocin in the Second Stage of Labor

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial investigating the utility of oxytocin administration in the second stage of labor.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine
• Treatments: Oxytocin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nulliparous pregnant women >/= 37 weeks gestation

• Singleton pregnancies

• Admission for induction of labor or spontaneous labor

Exclusion Criteria:

• Multiple gestations

• Multiparous patients

• Patients with major fetal anomalies

• Not on oxytocin at the time of complete cervical dilation

• Patients with fetal head visible at the perineum on diagnosis of complete cervical dilation