Gomco Versus Mogen: Which is Best? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Circumcision, Male

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare two commonly used circumcision clamps (Gomco and Mogen) to see which results in less neonatal pain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01726036

Run by

TriHealth Inc.

People needed

274

Starts

2012-10-01

Expected to finish

2014-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-06-05

Who can join

Age: any, up to 0. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• term infants delivered by cesarean section or vaginal delivery at Good Samaritan Hospital during the time period of the study
• Infants with no blood drawn two hours prior to the circumcision
• Singletons

You may not qualify if…

• Infants with congenital anomalies and/or known chromosomal syndromes
• Preterm infants defined as less than 37 / 0 weeks gestation.
• Delivery secondary to non-reassuring fetal heart tracing, defined by the delivering physician
• Infants of diabetic mothers.
• Infants of preeclamptic mothers on magnesium sulfate within 48 hours of delivery.
• Infants delivered by vacuum-assisted or forceps-assisted vaginal delivery.
• Infants of mothers who took steroids for fetal lung maturity within 7 days of delivery. (This may apply to term infants if the mother had no prenatal care and her gestational age was not known on arrival).
• Infants with a 5 minutes apgar score of less than 7
• Infants born to mothers with a history of drug abuse during pregnancy, currently on methadone, or with Hepatitis C or HIV.

Where it is running

• TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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