An interventional study of Normal Unit and Special birth unit in Low Risk Birth; Births With Low Risk Factor, sponsored by Ostfold Hospital Trust. Completed at 1 site in Norway. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2014-10-20.
Sponsored by Ostfold Hospital Trust · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
Prospective evaluation of birth complication in three differently staffed and equipped units in the same hospital.
The study will include approximately 1000 normal births in a county hospital. The mothers are randomly assigned to one of three different maternal wards; one run by midwives, one normally equipped according to national standards for a county hospital and one prepared for complicated births. Endpoints are number of operative births and complications.
Ostfold Hospital Trust is the lead sponsor of 48 studies on the registry; 10 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Low risk women with expected normal birth are being Randomized to The Midwife-led Unit, with low amount of intervention, No epidural is offered, no medical augmentation available, unless for the active phase of the second stage. If extended surveillance is necessary or if the birth no longer is considered to be normal and needs to be taken over by a doctor, the woman will be transferred to either the Normal Unit or the Special Unit
Low-risk women are randomised to this Low-risk maternal unit, The Normal Unit.The unit is organised for low-risk women with expected normal birth. The unit has access to extended surveillance, epidural and operative vaginal deliveries. If extended surveillance is necessary for a woman randomised to this unit, she does not have to be transferred to a higher level of care. Instrumental vaginal deliveries can be carried out at this unit.
Procedure: Normal Unit
Women with expected normal births are being randomised to this Special birth unit designed to take care of women before, under and after birth. The Special Unit cares for women with extended need for surveillance, but does also handle low-risk women.
Procedure: Special birth unit
low-risk patients randomised to Normal Unit
Also known as: Normal Unit, low-risk women
Low-risk women are randomised to the Special birth unit. Organised to take care of women with extended need for surveillance before, under and after birth.
Also known as: Standard care unit: The Special Unit.
Number of operative deliveries
Time frame: one week
number of registered complications
Time frame: one week
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