NCT01157325

Cesarean Rate in Parturients Without Neuraxial Analgesia

Comparison of the Cesarean Rate Between Parturients Who Received Neuraxial Analgesia and Those Who Did Not

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 500 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nanjing Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Currently, it is certain that neuraxial analgesia in early stage of labor and delivery dose not increase the risk of Cesarean section. However, given ethical reasons, whether such a medical procedure could increase the Cesarean rate compared with those who did not received neuraxial analgesia or not is yet to be known. It is difficult to perform such a study in occidental countries because they have a higher rate of labor analgesia. On the contrary, the rate of labor analgesia in China is up to date only 1%, so it can be done easily. The investigators hypothesized that no neuraxial analgesia itself were a risk factor to Cesarean section. Therefore, the investigators design this study to compared the effect of neuraxial analgesia on the rate of Cesarean delivery with those who did not received neuraxial analgesia.

Conditions

• Labor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Neuraxial analgesia	Neuraxial analgesia will be given at any time if the parturient requested analgesia
PROCEDURE	Non-neuraxial analgesia	No neuraxial analgesia will be given to those who will not want to an analgesia

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-07-01
• Primary completion: 2011-07-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2010-07-07
• Last updated: 2011-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China