Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery: Bupivacaine With or Without Fentanyl

Summary

The safest form of anesthesia for Cesarean section is a spinal anesthetic. All spinal anesthetics contain a local anesthetic and/or a narcotic. A drug named bupivacaine is the most commonly used local anesthetic in spinal anesthetics for Cesarean deliveries in North America. Another drug named fentanyl is the most commonly used narcotic. This study will look at whether a spinal anesthetic with 15mg of bupivacaine alone will be the same as a spinal anesthetic with 12mg of bupivacaine and 15ug of fentanyl.

Timeline

Start

2009-01

Primary completion

2009-08

Completion

2009-08

Drugs

Indications