Epidural Fentanyl for 2nd Stage Labor Analgesia

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This study is being done to investigate if there is more effective pain relief during the latter stages of labor and delivery when epidural fentanyl 100mcg is administered compared to epidural fentanyl 20mcg.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ohio State University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Fentanyl

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Nulliparous women

2. Spontaneous labor

3. A single vertex presentation fetus at term (38-42 weeks)

4. Effective labor epidural analgesia with continuous epidural infusion established

5. Provide written consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Multigravida women

2. Multigestation pregnancies

3. Patients being treated/managed for chronic pain

4. Allergies or significant adverse reactions to local anesthetic or opioid medications

5. Inadequate or unsatisfactory labor epidural analgesia

6. Patients with history of spine abnormalities or spine surgery

7. Non-English speaking

8. Prisoners

9. Age less than 18 years old