EpiConCES - Epidural Lidocaine for Conversion to CaEsarean Section
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2018-12-31
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Summary
The need to resort to a midwifery course work in cesarean is a common practice. Epidural
analgesia for labor analgesia is practiced in 90% of women in obstetric work, as when the
cesarean decision is taken course work in practice and the recommendations are to use the
epidural catheter in place to convert the epidural analgesia in epidural anesthesia by
re-injecting a local anesthetic on the catheter. General anesthesia is reserved only cases of
extreme urgency and cons-indications for regional anesthesia as a purveyor of high maternal
morbidity and mortality.
The initial assumption is that the 2% lidocaine with epinephrine is the optimal and
recommended local anesthetic solution.