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 ]

semi-quantitative assessment of decrease in the subject's pain score after administration of the study drug for the placement of an epidural catheter


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