Comparison of Epidural, Combined and Dural Puncture Labor Epidural on Pain, and Course of Vaginal Delivery

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Labor Pain; Analgesia

Treatments: Procedure: regional analgesia for labor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04290702

155/19-12-19

Details and patient eligibility

About

The three standard techniques used for labor analgesia, thus epidural, combined spinal-epidural and dural puncture epidural will be compared regarding their impact on pain intensity, analgesic and local anesthetic consumption and course of vaginal delivery in a prospective, randomised, double blind manner

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• parturients requiring regional labor analgesia
• dilation less than 5cm

Exclusion criteria

• contraindication for regional technique
• refuse to participate
• language barriers
• obesity
• no pain

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

epidural

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: regional analgesia for labor

combined

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: regional analgesia for labor

dural puncture epidural

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: regional analgesia for labor