Effect of Epidural Analgesia on the Length of Labor and Delivery and Fetal Outcomes

University of Cagliari

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Epidural Analgesia; Labor; Nulliparous

Treatments: Drug: Ropivacaine; Procedure: epidural analgesia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02396563

LABORCA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a difference in the duration of the first and second stage of labor in nulliparous women , with or without epidural analgesia. The investigators hypothesize that the duration of the first stage of labor will be no different in nulliparous patients, while the duration of the second stage will be longer in patient with analgesia.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nulliparous
• > 18 years old
• term (>37 weeks gestation)
• singleton
• vertex pregnancies

Exclusion criteria

• Non-vertex presentation
• cervical dilation > 4.0cm

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

epidural analgesia

Description:

women in labor with epidural analgesia

Treatment:

Procedure: epidural analgesia

Drug: Ropivacaine

no epidural analgesia