Epidural Morphine Following Vaginal Delivery

Phase 4 Completed 228 enrolled Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada The Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindPrevention

Summary

The investigators believe that pain management following a vaginal delivery can be improved. Many women receive epidural medication during labor and delivery, and the investigators felt that using the epidural following delivery might improve the first day pain. This study is to determine whether a single dose of epidural morphine given to mothers after a vaginal delivery will reduce the perineal pain in the postpartum period.

Timeline

Start: 2002-03
Primary completion: 2004-11
Completion: 2005-02

Publications

Background Goodman SR, Drachenberg AM, Johnson SA, Negron MA, Kim-Lo SH, Smiley RM. Decreased postpartum use of oral pain medication after a single dose of epidural morphine. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2005 Mar-Apr;30(2):134-9. doi: 10.1016/j.rapm.2004.11.010.
Background Macdonald R, Smith PJ. Extradural morphine and pain relief following episiotomy. Br J Anaesth. 1984 Nov;56(11):1201-5. doi: 10.1093/bja/56.11.1201.
Background Niv D, Wolman I, Yashar T, Varrassi G, Rudick V, Geller E. Epidural morphine pretreatment for postepisiotomy pain. Clin J Pain. 1994 Dec;10(4):319-23. doi: 10.1097/00002508-199412000-00013.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Morphine	Other / unclassified	2.5 mg	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.