NCT00898443

Continuous Labor Epidural Catheter for Tubal Ligation Study

Success Rate, Efficiency, and Predictors of Reactivation of a Continuous Labor Epidural Catheter for Postpartum Tubal Ligation

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is to study the success rate of using the epidural catheter that was placed during the labor for the surgical anesthesia to perform a postpartum tubal ligation.

Conditions

• Tubal Ligation
• Bilateral Tubal Ligation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Epidural anesthetic	Use of the existing continuous labor epidural for surgical anesthetic for postpartum tubal ligation
OTHER	Spinal anesthetic	This group was assigned to receive spinal anesthetic for postpartum tubal ligation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-10-01
• Primary completion: 2010-08-01
• Completion: 2010-08-01
• First posted: 2009-05-12
• Last updated: 2012-08-07
• Results posted: 2012-08-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States