Conditions: Cesarean Section
Keywords: analgesia meperidine epidural
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 273
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine if epidural meperidine administered by patient-controlled bolus button is equivalent to a low dose infusion plus patient-controlled bolus.

Detailed description:
The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy, patient satisfaction, and incidence of side effects of meperidine patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) with and without a basal infusion for post-cesarean section analgesia.

Arms:
arm 1: Epidural Meperidine (5mg/ml) bolus of 20 mg, lockout of 30 min, hourly limit of 50 mg. arm 2: Epidural meperidine (5mg/ml) basal rate of 10 mg/hr, bolus 20 mg, lockout 30 min, hourly limit 40 mg

Interventions: intervention 1: Meperidine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None

Protocol document: