# Electrical Inhibition (EI): A Preliminary Study To Inhibit Preterm Labor And Preterm Birth

> **NCT02569216** · PHASE1 · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **NYU Langone Health**

## Conditions studied

- Premature Birth
- Premature Labor

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** Electrical Inhibition (EI)

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02569216
- **Lead sponsor:** NYU Langone Health
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE1
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** 2016-02-09
- **Primary completion:** 2016-08-15
- **Final completion:** 2016-08-15
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** FDA/IRB approved but hospital administration vetoed the study fearing litigation of a preterm birth though the electrical uterine pacemaker/EI is not the cause.
- **Last updated:** 2017-11-09


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02569216

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02569216, "Electrical Inhibition (EI): A Preliminary Study To Inhibit Preterm Labor And Preterm Birth". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02569216. Licensed CC0.

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