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Filter by:Ultrasound real-time guidance technology has great advantages over traditional blind exploration technology in terms of accuracy, success rate, and reduction of puncture damage in intervertebral space positioning through operational visualization, greatly improving the effectiveness and safety of spinal block. At present, Doppler ultrasound is rarely used for spinal block, especially for real-time ultrasound guidance technology, which has not been widely applied in clinical practice due to its high equipment requirements, lack of mature puncture plans, complex operation, and high learning curve. If a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment plan can be developed, it will greatly improve the delivery experience of mothers.
Dural Puncture Epidural is a clinical improvement of Combined Spinal-Epidural and is widely used in Maternal.Dural Puncture Epidural Technique improves Labor Analgesia Quality And Safety By Increasing Drug Permeation.This study combines ultrasound real-time guidance technology. This technology ensures the accuracy of intervertebral space positioning and puncture success rate through operational visualization, and reduces the impact of operator proficiency on research results.
Background: The parturient will experience extreme pain during delivery. Effective labor analgesia will bring better delivery experience to the parturient, while the adverse experience during delivery may bring many adverse effects to the parturient, including postpartum depression, insomnia, and even suicide. Postpartum depression, which has a high incidence, is one of the most common diseases that affect the quality of life of pregnant women during the perinatal period. Postpartum depression even leads to maternal suicide, which is the main cause of maternal death in the first year after childbirth. At the same time, postpartum depression seriously affects the relationship between mother and baby, which significantly increases the risk of long-term psychological sequelae of their children. Its incidence in Europe and America is about 10%, while in China it even reaches 15.7-39.8%. In addition, these factors may also affect maternal breast milk and adversely affect the psychological and behavioral development of infants. Many studies report that effective analgesia can reduce the incidence of postpartum depression in the process of natural delivery, which indicates that labor analgesia is one of the effective measures to reduce postpartum depression. However, the sample size of these studies is relatively small, and they usually focus on the psychological impact on the mothers themselves, and the focus time is only 6-8 weeks after the operation. However, there is still a lack of large sample multicenter studies on the long-term outcome of postpartum mothers and newborns (including the impact of breast feeding and neonatal neurointellectual development). Objective: 1. The subjects were included and comprehensive perinatal data were collected. On this basis, the database of maternal and neonatal prognosis for labor analgesia was established; 2. Different data analysis methods were used to analyze the differences of maternal and neonatal outcomes to provide evidence based medical evidence for the current situation of labor analgesia and the optimization of labor analgesia mode.
Childbirth is associated with labour pain and can be regarded as one of the most serious kinds of pain. Labour pain management methods include pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods. There is increasing evidence that virtual reality (VR) is effective in the reduction of pain. The implementation of alternative methods like VR to reduce labour pain can contribute to reduce the use of pharmacological pain management methods and associated side effects. The objective of this study is to asses the effect of VR on the request for labour analgesia compared with standard care. Secondary objectives are the effect of VR on; the referral rate from midwifery led first line care to second line obstetrical care, patient satisfaction of VR use, delivery expectancy and experience (WIDEQ-A and WIDEQ-B), patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient reported experience measure (PREMs) as defined by international consortium for health outcome measures (ICHOM) and evaluate the social, economic, organizational and ethical issues of VR by using the health-technology assessment analysis (HTA). Study design: The study concerns a non-blinded, single centre, randomised controlled trial Study population: Nulliparous and multiparous women with a singleton in cephalic presentation beyond 36+0 weeks' gestation and an intention for vaginal delivery. The study population will be randomly assigned to the intervention group (VR-group) or the care as usual group. The intervention group will be exposed to an immersive guided relaxation VR experience (BirthVR) during labour. If a woman in the intervention group requires additional pharmacological pain relief, this will be offered according to the local protocol. The participants who are randomised to the standard care group receive labour pain analgesia on maternal request according to the local usual standard care.
Sixteen million babies were born in 2010, approximately half were by cesarean. Labor analgesia should be the first choice for these parturients based on the consideration of security and humanization. However this labor analgesia rate is quite low in China (<5%) while in western country, this rate is up to 60%. Programmed intermittent epidural bolus (PIEB) is the latest technique for labor analgesia which has less neurotoxicity theoretically compared with Continuous Epidural Infusion(CEI) with Patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) which is used most commonly. In that study, they reported less total local anesthetic consumption, fewer manual bolus doses and greater patient satisfaction with the PIEB technique. In China, multiple factors contribute to the reasons of low labor analgesia rate. From the patient's point of view, worrying about unsatisfied analgesia, and not adapted to the symptoms of motor block, such as inability to move their legs distressing, both are important reasons of refusing labor analgesia and preferring to cesarean delivery. Therefore, in this clinical trial, we plan to find a safer and more effective regimen for labor analgesia in Chineseparturients. This clinical trial is designed to prove PIEB used Ropivacaine is safer and more effective than CEI for labor analgesia in Chinese parturients.
The investigators wish to compare the analgesia provided by epidurals placed high in the lumbar spine versus epidurals place low in the lumbar spine.