Remote ischemic preconditioning for pain management in labour: a randomized controlled pilot study.

Phase 2

Completed

Conditions: pijn
labour pain
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Registration Number: NL-OMON45643

Lead Sponsor: Anesthesiologie

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Woman at 37-42 gestational weeks
• Aged > 18 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Analgesics before study
• Raynaud phenomenon
• Post-traumatic lengthy hand reconstruction on both upper extremities
• Severe crushing injuries on both upper extremities
• Skin grafts on both upper extremities
• Patients with advice for epidural analgesia
• Patient with contraindications for epidural analgesia
• Obstetrical complications such as:
o Intrauterine fetal death
o Obstetric high care patient
o Bleeding disorders
o Thrombosis disorders

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The time between the intervention and the need for any (other) analgesia.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>• Women with 30% or more pain relief after 10 minutes, 30 minutes, one hour and<br /><br>then every hour after treatment<br /><br>• NRS scores and analgesic needs<br /><br>• Rate of assisted vaginal birth<br /><br>• Rate of caesarean section<br /><br>• Apgar score<br /><br>• Significant maternal morbidity; major postpartum haemorrhage, uterine<br /><br>rupture, admission to an ICU, eclampsia or severe HELLP<br /><br>• Adverse and serious adverse events</p><br>