Study to Determine Whether the Instillation of 10ml Normal Saline Improves Epidural Analgesia During Labor
Withdrawn before enrolling · Phase 3
Conditions studied: Parturients
In brief
In current obstetric anesthesia practice, epidural analgesia is the most effective technique to control labor pain for those women who request pain-free delivery. Epidural analgesia not only allows us to obtain greater pain relief and increased satisfaction of mothers, but also permits us to convert it to regional anesthesia in case of operative delivery, avoiding general anesthesia. One of the major concerns with epidural anesthesia in labor setting is the inability to produce an intensive analgesia or adequate level to proceed with cesarean section. This study is designed to examine the hypothesis that 10ml epidural normal saline to reduce rate of one-side block, low segmental block, and patch block, and improve quality of labor epidural analgesia/ anesthesia in obstetric population.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01119079
- Run by
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2010-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 45. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- American Society of Anesthesiologists class I-II term parturients with singleton vertex presentation in active labor
- Patients who have cervical dilatation between 3 and 7 centimeters
You may not qualify if…
- • Patients with contraindications to epidural analgesia,
- severe medical or obstetric complications,
- morbid obesity (body mass index >40 kg/m2),
- history of drug or alcohol abuse,
- abnormal hepatic (AST/ALT), renal (creatinine levels), or hematological (PTT levels) test results.
- presence of blood on the second insertion into the intervertebral space
- presence of cerebral spinal fluid upon insertion into the intervertebral space
- subjects who deliver (either vaginally or via cesarean section) within 2 hours of the epidural insertion
- subjects less than 36 weeks gestation
Where it is running
- University Hospital — Newark, New Jersey, United States
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