Tested machine-controlled epidural boluses during labor
Treatments studied
Part of Pain clinical trials.
This study compares a new way a machine gives small, timed “top-up” doses through an epidural during labor. It may help provide steadier pain relief when you choose an epidural.
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Who can take part
- You are pregnant for the first time and are at full term (36 weeks or more)
- Your baby is usually positioned head-down (single baby, head-first)
- You are in early labor (your cervix is 5 cm or less open)
- You plan to get a labor epidural and the study team can use a combined spinal-epidural technique
- You do not have major pregnancy or medical problems that could make epidural treatment unsafe
- You have no reasons you can’t receive nerve-blocking anesthesia, and you didn’t get opioid pain medicine in the last 2 hours
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