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Filter by:A randomized controlled trial will be conducted to assess the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) at increasing retention in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services specifically, in relation to pickup of ARV drugs for infected mothers, delivery in the hospital setting, and receipt of drugs for exposed infants. Administrative data will be extracted from the All Babies are Equal program and hospital records. At 8-10 weeks after delivery, an endline survey will also be conducted with each participant to provide a deeper understanding of the impact of the CCTs and to assess the reasons for retention in PMTCT services.
The investigators hypothesize that washing the insemination catheter prior to performing the IUI (intrauterine insemination) will improve the pregnancy outcome in IUI cycles when compared to controls (without pre-washing the catheter). Catheter washing is performed routinely before embryo transfer, however it is not done for IUI catheters. Therefore no data is available on applying the technique to IUI catheters prior to insemination.
The investigators primary objective is to conduct a pilot randomized trial to determine the effect of group prenatal care on self-care activities in women with diabetes.
Currently, at UVA, handheld ultrasound devices (like those used to view an unborn baby) are only two dimensional. The Accuro is a three dimensional handheld ultrasound device. This device uses sound waves to create pictures of the spine in three dimensions. This may allow the physician to view the spine in more detail for procedures such as spinal anesthesia and other diagnostic procedures. Epidural analgesia is the mainstay procedure for the management of labor pain. The precise placement of a needle or catheter in proximity to landmarks of the spinal bone anatomy is required for the procedure to succeed. The current standard of care is called the 'blind approach' (i.e. without medical imaging) and involves a physician manually palpating a patient's back to locate spinal bone landmarks. The needle is then inserted with respect to the location of the landmarks and inserted until a loss-of-resistance is manually detected. This approach, while most common, has been associated with success rates as low as 68% in obese patients (2). Alternative methods have been investigated for this problem, including ultrasound (US) guidance, which offers real-time imaging. Several studies have demonstrated ultrasound's efficacy for spinal anesthesia (1-6). However, standard US systems are engineered to image soft tissue rather than bone structures, with the consequence that bone is imaged poorly. US images are often degraded by a number of noise sources including speckle noise, reverberations and off-axis scattering, particularly when bone is present, making visualization of bone anatomy features difficult. Moreover, arranging access to ultrasound for the purpose of spinal anesthesia alone is cumbersome. Thus, the efficacy of guided spinal anesthesia and diagnostic procedures using standard ultrasound systems is limited and the benefits that it offers are heavily dependent on the user's familiarity and skill with ultrasonography (4). Recently, new medical imaging technologies have been developed at Rivanna Medical, LLC to address the significant clinical need for technological advances that improve the placement of spinal anesthesia, epidural analgesia and other diagnostic procedures. The Accuro is a pocket-sized and battery operated ultrasound instrument that incorporates new signal processing-based technologies for enhanced bone imaging including 3D navigation of the lumbar spine. The device is a single self-contained unit consisting of an ultrasound system, ultrasound probe, and rotatable touchscreen display. The instrument enables a SpineView3D™ technology to facilitate spinal anesthesia guidance with real-time 3D navigation of the lumbar spine anatomy. SpineView3D™ technology facilitates image interpretation of individual 2D lumbar spine scans by automating spinal bone landmark detection and depth measurements and providing a real-time assessment of scan plane orientation in 3D. SpineView3D™ makes image interpretation and measurements of the lumbar spine anatomy simple, quick, and easy. Real-time 2D scans from either SpineView3D™ or general-purpose bone presets are formed using patent-pending BoneEnhance+™ technology. The BoneEnhance+™ technology provides images of bone anatomy at greater bone-to-tissue contrast compared with conventional ultrasound image reconstructions.
This study is aimed to compare the efficacy of 2 doses of iron sucrose given intravenously - 200 mg versus 500 mg.
The investigators aim to integrate the outcomes in physiology-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models to put the generated data into context with medical conditions that require maternal or fetal drug therapy (e.g. HIV). These models will be validated with available 'real-life' maternal and fetal PK data, such as data from the PANNA network. PBPK models of drug therapy during pregnancy will provide a powerful tool to 1.) assist in designing rational dosing adjustments, 2.) prevent intervention-based research in pregnant women in the future, and 3.) guide future development of new molecular entities (e.g. preventing heavy investment in drugs with high predicted fetal exposure and potentially toxic effects in utero).
Fetoscopic surgery has been acknowledged to be a reliable procedure to correct several congenital anomalies e.g. shunt insertion in fetal bladder outlet obstruction, laser ablation of vessels in twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), balloon occlusion in congenital diaphragmatic hernia etc. The technique involves an introduction of small-caliber instruments into the amniotic cavity under ultrasound guidance. This procedure can be successfully done under either general anesthesia, regional anesthesia or local anesthesia with sedation. Each technique has both advantages and drawbacks. Several complications related to anesthetic after fetoscopic surgery can occur. For instance, pulmonary edema which is caused by intravenous fluid loading, irrigation fluid absorption or fluid flow through myometrium venous channel. Besides, maternal hypotension intraoperatively can arise from spinal anesthesia. The aim of the study is to report choice of anesthesia using in fetoscopic surgery in the tertiary care institute (Siriraj hospital) and incidence of complications which may relate to different anesthetic techniques.
There is a significant need for nicotine cessation programs for pregnant women in Spokane County. SCRIPT has been proven to be an effective method for smoking cessation in pregnant women. This study will evaluate the success of SCRIPT delivered by pharmacists. At the end of the study, the investigators hope to have three questions answered: 1) what is the quit rate of pregnant women in the Spokane area who receive the SCRIPT intervention delivered by pharmacists? 2) How does the quit rate compare to the quit rates of SCRIPT programs delivered by other health care providers as documented in the literature? And 3) Does the SCRIPT intervention have a significant effect on quit rates for pregnant women compared to current Spokane county quit rates? Urine cotinine tests will be used to document smoking status before delivery of the SCRIPT program, approximately one week after quit date and at >36 wks gestation or at delivery for study participants.
Phase 3 Pilot Clinical Trial.
Pregnant women at high risk for preterm labor from at least 13 weeks of gestation will be tested to detect abnormal vaginal flora (AVF) or its severe form - bacterial vaginosis (BV) by taking vaginal smear. Treatment will be given according to the results.