Labour Epidural Top-up With Warmed Ropivacaine

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine weather using warmed (body temperature) 0.75% Ropivicaine to convert labour epidural analgesia to surgical anaesthesia, reduces the onset time of surgical block, compared to standard room temperature

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA I-II women with an established labour epidural

• Labour analgesia with standard low-dose mixture PCEA

• Need for surgical delivery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Category 1 (crash) CS

• Spinal blockade, suggesting migration of epidural catheter

• Use of epidural bupivacaine 0.25-0.5% within 1 h

• Pyrexial parturian - ≥38°C temperature before administration of top-up

• Multiply pregnancy

• Eclampsia

• An allergy or idiosyncratic reaction to local anaesthetic

• Patient refusal