Epidural Analgesia and Troubles of Fetal Cardiaq Rythm : Effect of the Systemic Transfer of Ropivacaine and Sufentanil

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The aim of the investigators study is to demonstrate the association between fetal cardiac rhythm abnormalies after epidural analgesia and the maternal systemic transfer of ropivacaine and/or sufentanil.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Rouen
• Treatments: Ropivacaine; Sufentanil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years old or more

• nulliparous

_ one fetus

• head first

• spontaneous labor

• epidural analgesia

• no fetal cardiac rhythm abnormalies before the epidural analgesia

• no active management of labor during 30 minutes after the epidural analgesia induction

• at term

• signature of the consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

• pathological pregnancy

• low maternal blood pressure during the 30 minutes after the epidural analgesia

• uterin contraction which last for 5 minutes or more

• more than 6 uterin contractions during a 10 minutes period

• Ropivacaine contraindication

• sufentanil contraindication