Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery: Bupivacaine With or Without Fentanyl

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The safest form of anesthesia for Cesarean section is a spinal anesthetic. All spinal anesthetics contain a local anesthetic and/or a narcotic. A drug named bupivacaine is the most commonly used local anesthetic in spinal anesthetics for Cesarean deliveries in North America. Another drug named fentanyl is the most commonly used narcotic. This study will look at whether a spinal anesthetic with 15mg of bupivacaine alone will be the same as a spinal anesthetic with 12mg of bupivacaine and 15ug of fentanyl.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Fentanyl

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy patients (ASA 1 or 2)

• BMI < 40

• height between 5 & 6 feet

Exclusion Criteria:

• parturients with pregnancy induced hypertension or preeclampsia

• parturients with significant cardiac, renal or other organ-system disease which preclude choice of spinal anesthesia

• emergency delivery

• triplet or greater multiple gestation