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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jan 20;(1):CD004943. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004943.pub3
Methods RCT.
Participants Pregnant women presenting for emergency CS for acute fetal distress, pre-eclampsia and failed trial of labour
N = 60.
Interventions
  1. Oral effervescent ranitidine 150 mg.

  2. No treatment.

Outcomes Gastric pH- measured with pH meter immediately postintubation and pre extubation
Notes
Risk of bias
Item Authors’ judgement Description
Adequate sequence generation? Unclear Not described.
Allocation concealment? Unclear Not described.
Blinding?
All outcomes
No No reports of blinding.
Incomplete outcome data addressed?
All outcomes
Yes No loss of participants reported.
Free of selective reporting? Unclear Due to translation of paper and we did not assess the trial protocol
Free of other bias? Yes No evidence of other bias.

CS: caesarean section

hr: hour

GA: gestational age

IM: intramuscular

IV: intravenous

ITT: intention to treat

M: molar

min: minute(s)

po: by mouth

pre-op: pre-operative

RCT: randomised controlled trial

SD: standard deviation