Effect of Pre-delivery Dexamethasone in Comparison With Betamethasone on Fetal Heart Trace

Recruiting now · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Cardiotocography, Steroids

In brief

As baby grows inside the womb of mother, heart and other organs develop. The heart activity can be recorded by placing a transducer on the belly of mother. The tracing obtain provides information about heart rate, any increase or decrease in heart rate and how much it varies with time. Variation in heart rate along with increase is indicator of fetal well being. Some mothers are at high risk of pre-term birth that is baby delivery before 37 weeks of gestation. In such cases steroids are given to mother to accelerate lung development of the baby so that it can easily adapt to outside world. Dexamethasone and Betamethasone are commonly used steroids which can also effect fetal heart activity.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07078786

Run by

Rawalpindi Medical College

People needed

110

Starts

2025-07-13

Expected to finish

2025-10-15

Last updated by the study team

2025-08-12

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• History of pre term labor
• Preterm pre labor rupture of membranes
• Third trimester bleeding due to placenta previa

You may not qualify if…

• IUGR
• Uteroplacental insufficiency
• Oligohydroamnios
• Maternal drug therapy that can effect fetal heart rate
• Contraindications to Intramuscular injections
• Patients admitted with non reassuring CTG

Where it is running

• Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi Medical University — Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, Pakistan (enrolling)

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