NCT01651962

Intravenous Terbutaline to Facilitate Labor Epidural Catheter Placement

Intravenous Terbutaline to Facilitate Epidural Catheter Placement for Parturients With Labor Pain

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Kai Schoenhage · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 53 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Labor Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Terbutaline
DRUG	Fentanyl
DRUG	0.9% NaCl

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2012-07-27
• Last updated: 2015-01-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States