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Immune and Physical Recovery Following Cesarean Delivery
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT04358757
Purpose
Pregnancy results in an altered immune state compared to the nonpregnant population. A
significant proportion of women undergoing cesarean delivery recover poorly. The first step
to determining whether this is an immune driven / associated process is to characterise what
effects this surgery has on maternal immune function. "Normal" changes will be evaluated in
maternal immune function and activity precipitated by surgery and delivery of the neonate.
Immune response to surgery will be compared to historical immune data from patients
undergoing non-obstetric surgery (orthopaedic patients).
Official Title
An Observational Study to Determine Immune and Physical Recovery Following Elective Cesarean Delivery
Stanford Investigator(s)
Pervez Sultan
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- elective cesarean delivery at Lucile Packard Hospital
- age >20 to <50 years old,
- single pregnancy term
- gestational age 37-41 weeks pregnancy,
- elective cesarean delivery,
- spinal or combined spinal-epidural anesthesia as primary anesthesia mode,
- multimodal analgesia regimen (including intrathecal morphine and regular acetaminophen
and NSAIDs), single center at Stanford.
- ASA grade 1 or 2.
- gestational diabetes (not requiring insulin or diabetes medications and pre-eclampsia
(without severe features) will be included.
- ethnic background: all ethnic backgrounds will be included gender: pregnant women only
Exclusion Criteria:
- refusal to participate
Intervention(s):
procedure: Elective cesarean delivery
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305