PIEB vs PCEA With Epidural or CSE Technique. A Randomized Double Blind Clinical Trial
NCT ID: NCT02768272
Last Updated: 2017-08-10
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
PHASE4
240 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2016-03-01
2017-08-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The investigators can define two types of BP: 'primary breakthrough pain' is the first moment when the patient requests analgesia during labor. 'Secondary breakthrough pain' can be defined as the time a previously effective epidural analgesia turns ineffective.
The BP may have multiple causes, such as delivery progression and catheter misplacement. There is no single pattern to provide adequate neuraxial analgesia for labor, but for certain patients and specific clinical situations some methods provide advantages over others.
The choice of a suitable system of epidural drug delivery has an important role in getting proper analgesia and a low incidence of breakthrough pain during labor. In order to develop preventive strategies for BP, some clinical scales to estimate its incidence rate have been described. Among risk factors for BP the investigators can include: Nulliparity, epidural catheter placement at an earlier cervical dilation, neonatal weight and technique performed (epidural versus combined spinal-epidural - CSE).
In addition, technological development has offered us new treatment modalities of pain management during childbirth have evolved recently to improve maternal satisfaction, as well as to treat and prevent BP: Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia (PCEA) added or not to a continuous epidural infusion (CEI), computer integrated PCEA (CI-PCEA) and automatic or programed intermittent epidural boluses (PIEB).
Nowadays, there is no evidence about the best epidural analgesic treatment or the optimum epidural punction in order to reduce BP episodes and, hence, increase maternal satisfaction.
Therefore, the investigators have design a randomized double blind clinical trial to know the incidence of breaktrough pain (BP) in high-risk of BP parturients (nulliparous with early cervical dilation) comparing two epidural analgesic regimes added to a contiuous infusion of L-bupivacaine plus fentanyl: programed intermittent epidural boluses versus patient controlled epidural analgesia. The role of the epidural technique (epidural versus combined spinal-epidural) in the incidence of BP will be also evaluated.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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Epidural analgesia
Randomized allocation to receive patient controlled epidural analgesia or programed intermittent epidural boluses
PCEA vs PIEB
We evaluate the relation between the distribution of L-bupivacaine plus fentanyl in the epidural space and the incedence of breaktrough pain during labor
Epidural technique
Randomized allocation to be punctioned a conventional epidural or a combined spinal-epidural technique
Epidural vs CSE
We evaluate the relation between the type of epidural technique and the incedence of breaktrough pain during labor
Interventions
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PCEA vs PIEB
We evaluate the relation between the distribution of L-bupivacaine plus fentanyl in the epidural space and the incedence of breaktrough pain during labor
Epidural vs CSE
We evaluate the relation between the type of epidural technique and the incedence of breaktrough pain during labor
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
2. Gestational age between 37 and 41 weeks
3. Singleton pregnancies
4. Nulliparity
5. Spontaneous or induced labor
6. Cervical dilation less than four centimeters
2. Do not consent to the study
3. Systemic medical pathologies as pre-eclampsia, insulin-treated gestational diabetes or multiple sclerosis that could influence medical decision during labour and/or make randomization unfeasible
4. Contraindication for neuraxial analgesia
18 Years
40 Years
FEMALE
No
Sponsors
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Hospital Universitario La Paz
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Emilia Guasch
Head of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department
Principal Investigators
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Emilia Guasch, MD, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department
Locations
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University Hospital La Paz
Madrid, , Spain
Countries
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References
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Loubert C, Hinova A, Fernando R. Update on modern neuraxial analgesia in labour: a review of the literature of the last 5 years. Anaesthesia. 2011 Mar;66(3):191-212. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2010.06616.x.
van der Vyver M, Halpern S, Joseph G. Patient-controlled epidural analgesia versus continuous infusion for labour analgesia: a meta-analysis. Br J Anaesth. 2002 Sep;89(3):459-65. doi: 10.1093/bja/aef217.
American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia. Practice guidelines for obstetric anesthesia: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia. Anesthesiology. 2007 Apr;106(4):843-63. doi: 10.1097/01.anes.0000264744.63275.10. No abstract available.
Hogan Q. Distribution of solution in the epidural space: examination by cryomicrotome section. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2002 Mar-Apr;27(2):150-6. doi: 10.1053/rapm.2002.29748.
Wong CA, Ratliff JT, Sullivan JT, Scavone BM, Toledo P, McCarthy RJ. A randomized comparison of programmed intermittent epidural bolus with continuous epidural infusion for labor analgesia. Anesth Analg. 2006 Mar;102(3):904-9. doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000197778.57615.1a.
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Chua SM, Sia AT. Automated intermittent epidural boluses improve analgesia induced by intrathecal fentanyl during labour. Can J Anaesth. 2004 Jun-Jul;51(6):581-5. doi: 10.1007/BF03018402.
Goodman SR, Smiley RM, Negron MA, Freedman PA, Landau R. A randomized trial of breakthrough pain during combined spinal-epidural versus epidural labor analgesia in parous women. Anesth Analg. 2009 Jan;108(1):246-51. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818f896f.
Boogmans T, Vertommen J, Valkenborgh T, Devroe S, Roofthooft E, Van de Velde M. Epidural neostigmine and clonidine improves the quality of combined spinal epidural analgesia in labour: a randomised, double-blind controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2014 Apr;31(4):190-6. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e32836249e9.
Other Identifiers
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2014-004696-24
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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