Novel device for assisted vaginal birth: using integrated qualitative case study methodology to optimise Odon Device use within a feasibility study in a maternity unit in the Southwest of England.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

When novel devices are used 'in human' for the first time, their optimal use is uncertain because clinicians only have experience from preclinical studies. This study aimed to investigate factors that might optimise use of the Odon Device for assisted vaginal birth.

Design

We undertook qualitative case studies within the ASSIST Study, a feasibility study of the Odon Device. Each 'case' was defined as one use of the device and included at least one of the following: observation of the attempted assisted birth, and an interview with the obstetrician, midwife or woman. Data collection and thematic analysis ran iteratively and in parallel.

Setting

Tertiary referral National Health Service maternity unit in the Southwest of England.

Participants

Women requ

SUBMITTER: Hotton EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9358957 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature