Clinical trial NCT02965430: PERFORMANCE STUDY OF THE AL-SENSE
Official title: PERFORMANCE STUDY OF THE AL-SENSE
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Amniotic Problems
Lead sponsor: Common Sense
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-11-16
Enrollment: 352
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 55
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: DIAGNOSTIC

Brief summary: This is an open-label, comparative, and prospective pivotal study to demonstrate that AL-SENSE can indicate whether wetness sensed by pregnant women may be caused by amniotic fluid leakage rather than by urinary incontinence.

Subjects arriving at the hospital will receive a single AL-SENSE to use until they notice any wetness.

The blinded physician will perform a diagnosis according to the standard diagnostic methods (clinical assessment). The standard diagnostic methods will include the following tests: (1) Pooling test, (2) Ferning test, (3) pH test by pH paper. A positive Pooling test or positive result in both the pH test and the Ferning test is defined as a positive clinical assessment.

Detailed description: This is an open-label, comparative, and prospective pivotal study to demonstrate that AL-SENSE can indicate whether wetness sensed by pregnant women may be caused by amniotic fluid leakage rather than by urinary incontinence. Subjects arriving at the hospital and reporting unidentified wetness (undetermined whether this is amniotic fluid leakage or urinary incontinence) will receive a single AL-SENSE to use up to 12 hours or until they notice any wetness. The clinician will explain the proper use and handling of the AL-SENSE.

In each case, the blinded clinician will be required to read and record any occurrence of color change of the AL-SENSE 10 minutes after the AL-SENSE removal and to mark if it changes color to blue or to green on the designated form.

The blinded physician (other than the clinician who records the AL-SENSE results) will perform a diagnosis according to the standard diagnostic methods (clinical assessment). The standard diagnostic methods will include the following tests: (1) Pooling test, (2) Ferning test, (3) pH test by pH paper. A positive Pooling test or positive result in both the pH test and the Ferning test is defined as a positive clinical assessment.

In cases where the AL-SENSE shows positive results but the clinical assessment results are negative, reference laboratories, or any other standard procedure will check for the possibility of BV or Trichomonas in addition to the tests noted above.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age 18 years or greater.
2. Subject minimum 16 weeks of pregnancy.
3. Who will sign the informed consent form.
4. Who arrive at the obstetric department reporting a feeling of vaginal wetness feeling (undetermined whether this is amniotic fluid leakage or urinary incontinence).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Subject who has experienced intermittent vaginal bleeding between the 2nd and 3rd trimesters.
2. Subjects that have had sexual intercourse within the last 12 hours.
3. Subject is unable or unwilling to cooperate with study procedures.
4. Subject that has been diagnosed with Bacterial Vaginosis or Trichomonas infection within the last 3 days.

Primary outcomes:
measure: color change of the pantyliner in comparison to standard clinical diagnosis
timeFrame: 10 min
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
name: Liangkun Ma, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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