Labor Analgesia With Ropivacaine and Clonidine

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2001-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of the present study was to examine, for pain relief during labor, the efficacy of two pharmacological approaches - the 0.125% ropivacaine alone and the 0.0625% ropivacaine added to 75 ug clonidine, both by epidural administration. The effect of the drugs on mother and newborn was also determined.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: UPECLIN HC FM Botucatu Unesp
• Collaborators: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.; Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, UNESP, Botucatu, Brasil
• Treatments: Clonidine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Singleton healthy

• Full-term pregnancy

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I or II

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who had received opioids

• History of hypersensitivity to local anesthetic or to clonidine

• Fetus showed signs of possible intrauterine suffering

• Fetus showed signs of possible neurological deficit