Intravenous Terbutaline to Facilitate Labor Epidural Catheter Placement
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2015-12-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Labor pain is a major factor in making the placement of an epidural catheter difficult. The
epidural, once in place and dosed, eventually decreases the parturient's pain. To achieve
this goal as fast and safely as possible it would be helpful to have a parturient who can
tolerate and co-operate with the placement of the epidural catheter.
Briefly stopping contractions, the cause of labor pain, could be the key to achieve this
goal.
This study will evaluate the safety, efficacy and duration of the drug terbutaline for this
purpose.