Dosing Strategies for Automated Mandatory Intermittent Boluses Technique for Epidural Labour Analgesia

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2012-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine how manipulation of the programmed intermittent time interval and volume influences total drug use, quality of analgesia, and patient satisfaction during maintenance of labor analgesia.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences University
• Treatments: Analgesics; Bupivacaine; Fentanyl

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Full term women in spontaneous labor.

• Gestation greater than or equal to 37 weeks.

• Primigravida.

• Age group between 18 Years to 45 Years.

• ASA grade I or II

• Not having any complicated pregnancy

• Not having any systemic disorders.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not willing for Epidural analgesia.

• Unwilling to get enrolled in this study.

• Systemic disorder like diabetes mellitus, hypertension and heart disease, spine deformity, blood coagulation disorder, bad obstetric history and foetal abnormity.

• Multiple-pregnancy or abnormal presentation.

• Complicated pregnancy like pregnancy induced hypertension, placenta previa, abruptio placenta.

• Cervical dilatation less than 2 or greater than 5 at time of initiation of neuraxial analgesia.

• Chronic analgesic medications

• Systemic opioid labor analgesia prior to the initiation of neuraxial labor analgesia.