Pain relief during labour
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Pregnancy and ChildbirthPain relief during labour
- Registration Number
- PACTR201702002020948
- Lead Sponsor
- Faculty of Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 300
Inclusion Criteria
women who were in the active labour (defined as regular uterine contractions of at least two in ten minutes), with a singleton pregnancy, cervical dilatation of at least four cm, with gestation of 37¿41 weeks, and reactive non-stress test.
Exclusion Criteria
included allergy or previous adverse reaction to opioids or opioid dependency, use of parenteral opioids within the previous 24 hours, presence of severe systemic or mental disease, maternal respiratory rate ¿ 8 or maternal bradycardia (pulse rate less than 60), and women requesting additional dosage of analgesia. The authors excluded women requesting additional analgesia in order to test the specific single dosing for a particular opioid.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method changes in pain scores
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Maternal adverse effects ;Fetal-neonatal outcome;maternal acceptability