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NCT number NCT05781854
Other study ID # Dexmedetomidine in normallabor
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2/Phase 3
First received
Last updated
Start date May 29, 2023
Est. completion date October 1, 2025

Study information

Verified date April 2024
Source Assiut University
Contact Hassan Khaled Ahmed Gomaa, Resident
Phone 01067319365
Email hassssan.khaled2013@gmail.com
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study is to compare two modes of labour epidural analgesia: programmed intermittent epidural boluses (PIEB) versus continuous epidural infusion (CEI), with patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA), using dexmedetomidine in addition to low-dose bupivacaine and through measuring the total volume of local anesthetic received through patient controlled epidural analgesia per hour


Description:

Labour although varies with the individual may be the most painful experience, any women may ever encounter. Concerns about pain in labour are as old as mankind. Pain can make patients feel uncomfortable and become sleepless and agitated. Pain also stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, which causes increase in the heart rate, blood pressure, sweat production, endocrine hyper-function, and delays the patients' prognosis. Labor pain often causes a strong stress response. Several inhalation and parenteral anesthetics, sedatives, tranquilizers, and analgesics have been used for pain relief during labor, while over the last decade, lumbar epidural analgesia has greatly increased. The ideal labor analgesia should be based on maternal and child safety and should have a fast-acting good analgesic effect and less adverse reaction. Different adjuvants such as opioids and α2-adrenergic agonists were added to local anesthetics to improve the quality of intraoperative and postoperative analgesia. Dexmedetomidine is a highly selective 2-adrenergic agonist which has been used as pre-medication and as an adjuvant to general anesthesia . Dexmedetomidine have several beneficial actions during perioperative period. It decreases the sympathetic tone with attenuation of the neuroendocrine and hemodynamic response to anesthesia and surgery, reduce anesthetic and opioid requirement, cause sedation and analgesia. Dexmedetomidine was used to enhance the analgesic property of local anesthetics like lidocaine, bupivacaine and ropivacaine. The mechanism by which intrathecal alpha 2-adrenergic agonists prolong the motor and sensory block of local anesthetics is not clear. It may be an additive or synergistic effect secondary to the different mechanisms of action of local anesthetic and alpha 2-adrenergic agonist. Maintenance of epidural analgesia involved intermittent provider , administered boluses, patient-controlled epidural analgesia, and continuous epidural infusions with or without patient-controlled epidural analgesia. Continuous epidural infusion is the standard application setting for epidural infusion, highly effective, and provides consistent analgesia. however, is associated with greater local anesthetic consumption . A newer approach to maintenance of labor epidural analgesia involves the administration of programmed intermittent epidural boluses with patient-controlled epidural analgesia dosing for breakthrough pain. Earlier studies have suggested that programmed intermittent epidural boluses may be superior to continuous epidural infusion for labor analgesia and may be associated with a reduction in local anesthetic requirement, decreased motor blockade, lower risk of instrumental deliveries, and improved patient satisfaction. This may be related to increased pressure generated during automated boluses, resulting in improved distribution of the local anesthetic in the epidural space .


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 60
Est. completion date October 1, 2025
Est. primary completion date March 1, 2025
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender Female
Age group 18 Years to 45 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Age 18 - 45 years - Scheduled for normal vaginal delivery - ASA physical status ?I-I??. - Singleton non-complicated pregnancy. - At least 36 weak of gestation. - Vertex presentation. Exclusion Criteria: - Patient refusal to epidural analgesia. - History of cardiac, liver, or kidney diseases. - History of allergy to amide local anesthetics or study medications. - Any neurological problem. - History of chronic opioid analgesic use. - Any contraindication of regional anesthesia. - Evidence of intrauterine growth restriction or fetal compromise. - Failed or unsatisfactory analgesic block. - Body mass index =40 kg/m2

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Drug:
Epidural analgesia with bupivacaine and dexmedetomidine
Epidural analgesia with bupivacaine and dexmedetomidine

Locations

Country Name City State
Egypt Assiut university hospital Assiut

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Assiut University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (13)

Ebirim, L.N., Buowari, O.Y., Ghosh, S. Physical and Psychological Aspects of Pain in Obstetrics. In: Ghosh, S., editor. Pain in Perspective [Internet]. London: IntechOpen; 2012 [cited 2022 Oct 18]. Available from: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/40395 doi: 10.5772/53923

El Fawal, S., El Kabarity, R., Ahmed, N., Abd-El-Tawab, S. (2022). Effect of Epidural Dexmedetomidine vs Nalbuphine for Labor Analgesia. A randomized clinical trial. Egyptian J Anesthesia: 38 (1); 373382

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Fortescue C, Wee MYK. Analgesia in labour: non-regional techniques. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain. 2005; 5(1): 219-223.

Gertler R, Brown HC, Mitchell DH, Silvius EN. Dexmedetomidine: a novel sedative-analgesic agent. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2001 Jan;14(1):13-21. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2001.11927725. — View Citation

Martin E, Ramsay G, Mantz J, Sum-Ping ST. The role of the alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist dexmedetomidine in postsurgical sedation in the intensive care unit. J Intensive Care Med. 2003 Jan-Feb;18(1):29-41. doi: 10.1177/0885066602239122. — View Citation

Mostafa MF, Herdan R, Fathy GM, Hassan ZEAZ, Galal H, Talaat A, Ibrahim AK. Intrathecal dexmedetomidine versus magnesium sulphate for postoperative analgesia and stress response after caesarean delivery; randomized controlled double-blind study. Eur J Pain. 2020 Jan;24(1):182-191. doi: 10.1002/ejp.1476. Epub 2019 Sep 12. — View Citation

Ojo OA, Mehdiratta JE, Gamez BH, Hunting J, Habib AS. Comparison of Programmed Intermittent Epidural Boluses With Continuous Epidural Infusion for the Maintenance of Labor Analgesia: A Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Study. Anesth Analg. 2020 Feb;130(2):426-435. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004104. — View Citation

Paramasivan A, Lopez-Olivo MA, Foong TW, Tan YW, Yap APA. Intrathecal dexmedetomidine and postoperative pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Eur J Pain. 2020 Aug;24(7):1215-1227. doi: 10.1002/ejp.1575. Epub 2020 May 22. — View Citation

Sng BL, Sia ATH. Maintenance of epidural labour analgesia: The old, the new and the future. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2017 Mar;31(1):15-22. doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2017.01.002. Epub 2017 Jan 12. — View Citation

Verghese T, Dixit N, John L, et al. Effect of intravenous dexmedetomidine on duration of spinal anaesthesia with hyperbaric bupivacaine - A comparative study. Indian J Clin Anaesth. 2019;6(1):97-101

Werdehausen R, Fazeli S, Braun S, Hermanns H, Essmann F, Hollmann MW, Bauer I, Stevens MF. Apoptosis induction by different local anaesthetics in a neuroblastoma cell line. Br J Anaesth. 2009 Nov;103(5):711-8. doi: 10.1093/bja/aep236. Epub 2009 Aug 22. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary total volume of local anesthetic total volume of local anesthetic received through patient controlled epidural analgesia per hour 24 hour
Secondary Ramsay sedation scale Completely awake or asleep and not responsive to any stimulus 24 hour
Secondary Heart rate Beat per minute 24 hour
Secondary Blood Pressure mmHg 24 hour
Secondary Likert scale for satisfaction very satisfied or very dissatisfied 24 hour
Secondary Bromage score for motor block free movement of legs and feet or unable to move legs and feet 24 hour
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