Prophylactic Antibiotic After Perineal Tear

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Current World Health Organization guidelines recommend routine antibiotic prophylaxis for women with perineal tear 3rd and 4th degree but not for 2nd degree because of insufficient evidence of effectiveness. The investigators aimed to investigate whether antibiotic prophylaxis prevented maternal infection after the first and second perineal tear after vaginal birth.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Meir Medical Center
• Treatments: Cefazolin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age 18-45

• perineal tear 2nd and 1st degree( episiotomy)

Exclusion Criteria:

• 3rd and 4 th degree perineal tear

• antibiotic indication during delivery

• cesarian section delivery