Manual removal or spontaneous placental delivery and postcesarean endometritis and bleeding

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Oxytocin in the context of endometriosis, published as a randomized controlled trial.

To compare the effect of manual removal and spontaneous delivery of placenta on postcesarean bleeding and endometritis.

Who Took Part

The study group was 400 women.

PubMed indexes the participants as adults, women only.

In this prospective study 400 pregnant women undergoing elective cesarean delivery were randomly assigned to two groups: spontaneous placental delivery (200 women) and manual placental delivery (200).

Endometritis was diagnosed in patients who developed clinical signs of fever and suprapubic tenderness 48 h after delivery.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

The women were allocated by chance, so the Oxytocin group and the comparison group should start out alike.

No antibiotic prophylaxis was administered in either group.

The researchers analyzed the data using a t-test.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Cesarean Section, Endometritis, Hemoglobins, Incidence, Labor Stage, Third, Oxytocics and Oxytocin.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Oxytocin in 400 women in people with endometriosis.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2004 (International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Oxytocin compound page, Endometriosis research.