Epidural analgesia is the gold standard of pain relief for labour pain. Despite this, more
than 50% of parturients continue to experience pain leading to suffering and increased
caregiver workload. Women who have increased pain tend to have lower successful patient bolus
demands when patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is utilised and have dysfunctional
labour requiring obstetric intervention such as Caesarean or instrumental delivery. Labour
pain often escalates and worsens as labour progresses requiring an individualized, variable,
flexible analgesic regimen. Bolus epidural administrations have been shown to improve uniform
spread of local anaesthetics with better pain relief, compared to fixed background infusions.
Phase:
Phase 3
Details
Lead Sponsor:
KK Women's and Children's Hospital
Treatments:
Anesthetics Anesthetics, Local Fentanyl Ropivacaine