Obesity: Cesarean Health by Incision Placement

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Maternal Morbidity

In brief

Hypothesis: A Pfannenstiel cesarean skin incision placed under the pannus (should a pannus exist) will have a higher maternal morbidity composite rate than a Cohen cesarean skin incision placed above the pannus (should a pannus exist).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02909582

Run by

Thomas Jefferson University

People needed

284

Starts

2016-09-01

Expected to finish

2019-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-10

Who can join

Age: 16 and older, up to 55. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• BMI > or = 35 kg/m2 at time of presentation for delivery
• Speaks English

You may not qualify if…

• BMI < 35 kg/m2 at time of presentation or delivery
• Unable to consent (including language spoken other than English)
• Prior abdominal incisions or obstetric factors necessitating placement of incision in specified location, at the discretion of the attending surgeon
• Infection present (ie cellulitis) precluding incision placement at one of the randomization sites

Where it is running

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)

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