The Randomised Epidural Analgesia in Term Delivering Women Trial (TREAT)
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2013-11-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
* The objective of the study: to assess the impact of a proactive policy of offering EA at
the start of labour as compared to a restrictive policy or care as usual.
* Study design: It concerns a multicentre randomised open label trial.
* Study population: Term nulliparous and multiparous women with a child in cephalic
presentation, and without contraindications for vaginal labour or EA.
* Intervention: Women will be allocated to the EA group or the care-as-usual group. In the EA
group, women are given an EA as soon as they are in labour. In the care-as-usual
(restrictive) group, women receive pain relief only on their explicit request.