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UnknownNCT03975816

The Application of Analgesia Nociception Index as an Objective Labor Pain Assessment During Epidural Analgesia

Changhua Christian Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology

Status
Unknown
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
100 (estimated)
Sponsor
Changhua Christian Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
Female
Age
20 Years – 50 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Epidural analgesia is considered an effective and safe method for obstetric pain control. Currently, self-assessment pain scales remain to be the gold standard in labor pain evaluation after the administration of epidural analgesia. However, individual patient susceptibility to pain perception makes difficulties for the clinicians to assess the effectiveness of painless labor precisely. The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of ANI in obstetric pain monitoring during epidural analgesia.

Detailed description

Epidural analgesia is considered an effective and safe method for obstetric pain control. Currently, self-assessment pain scales remain to be the gold standard in labor pain evaluation after the administration of epidural analgesia. However, individual patient susceptibility to pain perception makes difficulties for the clinicians to assess the effectiveness of painless labor precisely. Without a convincing objective tool for obstetric pain evaluation during epidural analgesia, the clinicians are hard to adjust adequate epidural drug dosage. Establishing an objective pain index would help the clinicians to have a better pain management during labor. In 2012, M. Le Guen et al. demonstrated a linear relationship between visual analogical pain scores(VAS) and Analgesia Nociception Index (ANI) values during labor. Their efforts started the application of ANI in obstetric pain monitoring. However, the reliability of ANI in obstetric pain monitoring under epidural analgesia have not yet been verified. The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of ANI in obstetric pain monitoring during epidural analgesia.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DEVICEAnalgesia nociception indexMonitor the maternity with Analgesia nociception index

Timeline

Start date
2019-11-17
Primary completion
2022-08-21
Completion
2023-08-21
First posted
2019-06-05
Last updated
2021-08-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03975816. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.