Clinical Trial: Intravenous Terbutaline to Facilitate Labor Epidural Catheter Placement
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Intravenous Terbutaline to Facilitate Epidural Catheter Placement for Parturients With Labor Pain
Brief Summary:
Labor pain is a major factor in making the placement of an epidural catheter difficult. The epidural, once in place and dosed, eventually decreases the parturient's pain. To achieve this goal as fast and safely as possible it would be helpful to have a parturient who can tolerate and co-operate with the placement of the epidural catheter.
Briefly stopping contractions, the cause of labor pain, could be the key to achieve this goal.
This study will evaluate the safety, efficacy and duration of the drug terbutaline for this purpose.
Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Kai Schoenhage
Current Primary Outcome: reduction of pain score on a visual analog scale (VAS) of 1-10 [ Time Frame: 0-30 minutes ]
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome:
- movement during epidural placement [ Time Frame: 0-30 minutes ]semi-quantitative assessment of the subject's movement during placement of the epidural catheter: 0-1-2-3: none - extremities - trunk a bit - trunk a lot
- position during epidural placement [ Time Frame: 0-30 minutes ]semi-quantitative assessment of the subject's position during the epidural catheter placement: 0-1-2: excellent - moderate - poor
Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current
Information By: University of Arizona
Dates:
Date Received: July 20, 2012
Date Started: August 2012
Date Completion: December 2015
Last Updated: January 15, 2015
Last Verified: January 2015