Status:
COMPLETED
Differential Sensory Block During Labor Epidural Analgesia: a Prospective Observational Study to Investigate the Relationship of Lower and Upper Sensory Block Levels to Cold With Sensory Block to Pinprick and Light Touch
Lead Sponsor:
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
Conditions:
Labor Pain
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18-60 years
Brief Summary
Epidural analgesia remains the gold standard for pain control during labor and delivery. Proper assessment of an epidural's level of blockade is important for providing safe and effective analgesia. P...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- ASA Physical Status Classification II and III parturients
- Requested and received a labour epidural
- Capable of consenting to the study
- Have no language barrier which may obfuscate the sensory block assessment
- Are receiving programmed intermittent epidural boluses (PIEB) for maintenance analgesia, which is the Mount Sinai Hospital default maintenance regimen
Exclusion
- Medical comorbidities that could compromise the body's sensitivity to cold, pinprick, or touch
- Epidurals performed under a combined spinal-epidural (CSE) or dural puncture epidural (DPE) technique
- Epidurals with a documented unintentional dural puncture
- Inadequate epidural analgesia requiring either manually administered epidural boluses, an increase in the concentration of their maintenance local anesthetic, or a repeat of their epidural
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 21 2021
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 27 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
30 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05187962
Start Date
December 21 2021
End Date
July 27 2022
Last Update
October 25 2022
Active Locations (1)
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Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G1X5