Comparison of the two techniques of nerve blockade for painless labour in pregnant women.
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/02/023369
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1.American Society of Anaesthesiologists , ASA grade 1 and grade 2
2.Age more than 18 years.
3.Primigravida.
4.Single gestation.
4.Cephalic presentation at 36 or more weeks of gestation.
5.In early spontaneous labour, cervical dilatation of 5 cm or less.
6.Baseline pain score of more than 30.
7.Able to use PCEA pump.
8.Requesting epidural analgesia for labour.
Exclusion Criteria
1.Refusal by parturient.
2.Parturients who had recieved parenteral opiods in the last 24 hours.
3.Systemic and local sepsis.
4.Deranged coagulation profile.
5.Parturients having multiple pregnancies and premature labour.
6.Obstetric complications example premature rupture of amniotic membranes.
7.Chorioamnionitis.
8.HELLP syndrome.
9.Noncephalic presentations.
10.Allergy to study drugs , levobupivacaine and fentanyl.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome is patient-controlled epidural analgesia consumption per hour corrected over duration of labour.Timepoint: The primary outcome is patient-controlled epidural analgesia consumption per hour corrected over duration of labour.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The need for physician interventions, patterns of patient-controlled epidural analgesia use, motor blockade, number of patients who developed hypotension, pain scores, duration of second stage of labour, mode of delivery, maternal satisfaction, and other maternal and neonatal outcomes.Timepoint: during duration of labour and follow up upto 48 hours.