Reliability of Ultrasound Assisted Epidural Analgesia in Obese and Normal Weight Parturients

Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01438099

18894

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study wants to investigate if ultrasound assisted epidural catheter insertion for labor analgesia is easier and safer to the standard epidural technique.

Full description

This study has four specific aims:

1. to evaluate congruity between palpatory technique and ultrasound lumbar evaluation to identify the correct spinal space;
2. to compare between ultrasound evaluation and needle measure of skin-epidural space depth;
3. to compare between longitudinal and transverse ultrasound epidural space depth in obese and normal parturients;
4. to check the reduction of complications and failure rates of epidural analgesia with ultrasound assistance.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all women who request epidural analgesia for labor

Exclusion criteria

• all women who present contraindication for epidural analgesia

Trial design

300 participants in 2 patient groups

normal subjects

Description:

parturients admitted to the labor ward who request epidural analgesia with BMI \< 30

obese subjects

Description:

parturients admitted to the labor ward who request epidural analgesia with BMI \> 30