Analgesic Effects of Intravenous Paracetamol on Labor Pain

King Abdulaziz University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Labor Pain

Treatments: Drug: Acetaminophen; Drug: Meperidine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01394731

RC08-052

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether intravenous paracetamol is effective in treating labor pain.

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical class I-II
• term patients (≥ 37 weeks of gestation)

Exclusion criteria

• previous cesarean section
• hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia
• intra-uterine growth retardation
• intrauterine fetal death
• morbid obesity (body mass index ≥ 35)
• allergy to any of the study drugs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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0 participants in 3 patient groups

Paracetamol 1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Acetaminophen

Paraceatmol 2

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Acetaminophen

Meperidine

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Meperidine