Epidural Analgesia on Electrophysiological Function

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Combined spinal-epidural analgesia (CSEA) is sometimes used for difficult births, but whether it contributes to postpartum pelvic muscle disorder is unclear. This randomized controlled trial examined whether CSEA affects the electrophysiological index of postpartum pelvic floor muscle during labor. The investigators plan to recruit 300 primiparous healthy women.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital
• Treatments: Sufentanil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Primiparous women gave birth by vaginal delivery between June 2013 and June 2014 in the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Nanning

• They were 22-30 years old

• They were 155-165 cm tall

• They were assigned a score of I or II on the American Society of Anesthesiologists scale

• They gave birth by vaginal delivery to a live, single, mature fetus (≥ 38, ≤ 40 w) in the head position

• A neonatal weight of 2900-3500 g

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of chronic cough

• Chronic constipation or pelvic organ resection

• Family history of urinary incontinence

• Pelvic organ prolapsus

• Any systemic disease before delivery

• A history of surgery, trauma, tumors or deformity of lumbar vertebrae