Intermittent Automated Devices for Labor Analgesia in Emilia Romagna

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2018-02-28
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The study aims to determine whether the use of automated intermittent devices for labor analgesia could prevent the increase of instrumental deliveries, with same analgesia.

Moreover it will evaluate if automated devices can allow a reduction of health-care burden.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Dsuvia; Levobupivacaine; Sufentanil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Nulliparous women at full-term pregnancy single fetus and vertex presentation, hospitalized for harbingers of labor and cervical dilation less than 5 cm

2. Numeric Rate Scale > 5

Exclusion Criteria:

1. patients aged under 18 years

2. patients with ongoing administration of oxytocin

3. patients with no indications to epidural analgesia

4. patients with inability to place the epidural catheter for technical difficulty

5. patients with parenteral administration of opioids

6. multiparous women

7. patients unable to understand the objectives and procedures of the study