Treatment of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) Using Misoprostol in Home Births

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

A double-blind individual randomized controlled study of misoprostol vs. placebo for treatment in homebirths in the Chitral district, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Gynuity Health Projects
• Collaborator: Aga Khan Health Services
• Treatments: Misoprostol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women who deliver at home with a study TBA present.

• Women must be willing and able to provide informed consent

• Women must agree to participate in a follow up interview

• Women must agree to have pre and post-partum haemoglobin taken

Exclusion Criteria:

• If the woman does not meet any of the above outlined inclusion criteria