Intrathecal Analgesia for Normal Labour

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Primary outcome: Compare the duration of analgesia. Secondary outcome: analgesic potency of bupivacaine and fentanyl versus levobupivacaine and fentanyl.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Fentanyl; Levobupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. singleton pregnancies

2. vertex presentation who will be in the active phase of labour with a cervical dilatation >4cm

3. normal fetal heart rate.

Exclusion Criteria:

• 1-Parturients with systemic diseases 2-Suspected cesarian section which include, in order of frequency, labor dystocia, abnormal or indeterminate (formerly, nonreassuring) fetal heart rate tracing, fetal malpresentation, multiple gestation, and suspected fetal macrosomia.

• 3 Fetus with known or suspected congenital abnormalities, and 4-Administration of parentral or oral analgesics before initiation of neuraxial analgesia will be excluded from the study.