Epidural Analgesia Versus IV Meperidine for Labor Pain Control

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2006-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

60 female that care for pain control during second stage of delivery, will choose between epidural or systemic analgesia. Continuous ECG (3 lead)monitoring will be recorded during the second stage for 10 minutes. 30 minutes after administration of either pain relief, a second recording of maternal ECG will take place for 10 minutes.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Rambam Health Care Campus
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Fentanyl; Meperidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: all parturients requiring pain relief will choose between systemic or epidural analgesia.

Exclusion Criteria: all parturients with cardiac disease, neurological disease, endocrine disease, diabetes, hypertension or any parturients being treated with medications that might effect the cardiovascular or autonomic system.

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