Management of Obstetrical Pain:  7 Days Survey of Obstetric Analgesia/Anesthesia in France

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Obstetric analgesia is a requirement of our times. The different applicable methods vary in effectiveness. The essential part is represented by epidural analgesia which remains one of the most effective methods. It is important to know other methods to respond to all requests. The applications of these methods, patient satisfaction and psychic experience, complications or incidents remain poorly or partially evaluated in France. The main objective is to describe the different techniques of anesthesia/analgesia actually used in France for the management of pain during vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections on a representative sample of all maternity hospitals at a given time(7 days per maternity hospital, 63 maternity hospitals (levels I,II,III), so about 2500 births). Secondary objectives will be multiple : Describe the results of analgesic methods on the physical pain of patients during labor by a global visual analog scale Describe the feeling of pregnant women relative to the different anesthesic and analgesic techniques, by an analysis of the questionnaire responses Describe the frequency of adverse events of birth

Official Title
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 7 Days Survey of Obstetric Analgesia/Anesthesia in France (EPIDOL)

Conditions
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Birth

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Questionnaires during hospitalization for delivery


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: All patients hospitalized in a maternity hospital for delivery during the 7 days defined for the study will be included Exclusion Criteria: Patients under 18 years old Lack of understanding of the French language

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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Female

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| pregnant woman<br> | Other: Questionnaires during hospitalization for delivery<br>* Questionnaires during hospitalization for delivery (one questionnaire completed by doctors about different technic of analgesia and anesthesia and one questionnaire completed by women about pain, and feeling about the different techniques of analgesia and anesthesia used during delivery, eventually caesarean section or uterine revision)<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Type of analgesia techniques | description of the different techniques of analgesia during labor, uterine revision and eventually cesarean section assessed by a questionnaire | Day 0 | 
| Type of anesthesia techniques | description of the different techniques of anesthesia during labor, uterine revision and eventually cesarean section assessed by a questionnaire | Day 0 | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| physical pain assessed by using a visual analog scale. |  | Day 1 | 
| Assessment of the feeling of pregnant women about the analgesic and anesthesic techniques by a questionnaire |  | Day 2 | 
| Collect of adverse events |  | Day 2 | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Birth, obstetric analgesia, obstetric anesthesia