Analgesic Effects of Intravenous Paracetamol on Labor Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether intravenous paracetamol is effective in treating labor pain.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: King Abdulaziz University
• Collaborator: King Abdulaziz Medical City
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Analgesics; Meperidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical class I-II

• term patients (≥ 37 weeks of gestation)

Exclusion Criteria:

• previous cesarean section

• hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia

• intra-uterine growth retardation

• intrauterine fetal death

• morbid obesity (body mass index ≥ 35)

• allergy to any of the study drugs