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A RANDOMISED DOUBLE BLIND CLINICAL TRIAL OF ABDOMINAL DECOMPRESSION FOR THE PREVENTION OF PRE‐ECLAMPSIA
Author(s) -
Coxon A.,
Fairweather D. V. I.,
Smyth C. N.,
Frankenberg J.,
Vessey M.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1973.tb02983.x
Subject(s) - medicine , eclampsia , decompression , double blind , double blind study , suction , surgery , randomized controlled trial , anesthesia , obstetrics , clinical trial , pregnancy , mechanical engineering , genetics , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering , biology , placebo
Summary A randomized double blind study of twice–weekly abdominal decompression from the 28th week of pregnancy, involving 411 primigravidae in three hospitals, is reported. No significant difference was noted in the admission rate for pre–eclampsia between 200 patients who were subjected to a suction pressure of 70 mm. Hg and 211 patients who were subjected to a suction pressure of only 20 mm. Hg. Although the length of hospital stay was significantly less in the former group, we conclude that routine antenatal decompression therapy plays no role in the prophylaxis of pre–eclampsia.