Color Doppler Ultrasound to Locate Needle in Labor Epidural

Completed

Conditions studied: Labor Pain, Obstetric Pain

In brief

Color Flow Doppler (CFD) utilizes Doppler information obtained from signals sent to and received from a transducer. This information is color-encoded and then displayed as color on an overlay of the two-dimensional image. The color scale represents both speed and direction of flow within a discrete area of the image. CFD has been recently used to determine the position of the epidural catheter. However its role in labor epidural has yet to be defined. This study describes the use of CFD to confirm the position of the tip of the epidural needle in the context of labor analgesia. This study hypothesized that CFD is a feasible method for identifying proper epidural needle placement prior to epidural catheter advancement.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03596333

Run by

Augusta University

People needed

35

Starts

2018-05-28

Expected to finish

2018-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Pregnant patients who had labor epidural placed for clinical indications, in whom ultrasound was used to assist the procedure.

You may not qualify if…

• Poor quality ultrasound images judged by experienced anesthesiologist
• Patients with history of lumbar spine surgery

Where it is running

• Augusta University — Augusta, Georgia, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.