NCT04948892

Presence of the Father During Hyperacute Cesarean Section in General Anesthesia

Completed Last updated 25 April 2024

What this trial tests

trial testing Prescence of the father during cesarean section in general anesthesia in Cesarean Section in 26 participants. Completed in 1 October 2023.

Timeline

1 January 2022

Primary endpoint
1 January 2023

1 October 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Sygehus Lillebaelt
Status	Completed
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	26
Start date	1 January 2022
Primary completion	1 January 2023
Estimated completion	1 October 2023
Sites	2 locations across Denmark

Drugs / interventions tested

• Prescence of the father during cesarean section in general anesthesia

Conditions studied

• Cesarean Section — all drugs for Cesarean Section →

Sponsor

Sygehus Lillebaelt — full company profile →

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Cesarean Section. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study concerns cesarean sections, category 1, meaning those cases where the life of mother and/or fetus is in immedeate danger and the child must be delivered within 15 minutes from activating the cesarean section team. In most hospitals in Denmark, these cesarean sections are most often performed in general anesthesia and the mother is endotracheally intubated.

Previously in these situations, as the mother was rushed from the Labour Ward to the operation room (OR), her spouse/partner, would be placed outside the operating room (OR), and would stay there until the child had been delivered.

In Lillebaelt Hospital, Kolding, Denmark, the newborn-resuscitation table is placed inside the OR. The father would most often be allowed to enter the OR when the child was delivered and placed on the resuscitation table (no matter the status of the child).

However, during spring 2021, Lillebaelt Hospital Kolding updated the policy regarding the handling of the father/partner during cesarean section category 1. Now the father/partner is present in the OR during the whole procedure, including induction of general aesthesia, endotracheal intubation, performance of the cesarean section (drapings are positioned so that the father cannot see the operation field) and potential resuscitation efforts of the newborn.

In another hospital in the same region (Region of Southern Denmark), Aabenraa Hospital, the father is not present in the OR during the cesarean section. He waits in the labour ward.

The investigators therefore wish to investigate how the cesarean section category 1 is experienced by: the father/partner; the mother; the obstetrician; the anestesiologist; the midwife; the OR nurse; the anesthetic nurse, both in Kolding where the father/partner is present in the OR, and in Aabenraa, where the father/partner is not present in the OR during the cesarean sectio.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.