Patient Controlled Remifentanil Analgesia for Normal Labour

Patient Controlled Remifentanil Analgesia vs. Epidural Analgesia for Normal Labour. A Prospective Randomised Study

Patient controlled remifentanil analgesia might offer comparative overall patient satisfaction and improved quality of analgesia after normal labour with continuous epidural analgesia.

We are aiming to study the effects of patient controlled remifentanil analgesia and epidural analgesia for normal labour in full term parturients on:

• Peripartum analgesia
• Overall patient's satisfaction
• Maternal adverse effects
• Neonatal outcomes

Inclusion Criteria:

• Gestational age > 36 weeks
• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical class I to III

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to study solution
• Contraindications to epidural analgesia
• Non consented parturients
• Communications barriers.
• Intrauterine foetal growth retardation
• Foetal distress