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Status unknownNCT00954317Updated Nov 30, 2012

Do Epidurals Placed at a Lower Level Improve Labor Analgesia?

An interventional study of epidural placed low and high epidural in Labor Analgesia, sponsored by Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada. Status unknown at 1 site in Canada. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-11-30.

Sponsored by Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Nov 2012), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
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Study summary

The investigators wish to compare the analgesia provided by epidurals placed high in the lumbar spine versus epidurals place low in the lumbar spine.

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Conditions studied

  • Labor Analgesia

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Keywords

  • epidural
  • labour analgesia
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In context

Agnosia

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This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 78 across 1,024 interventional studies indexed under Agnosia.

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Lead sponsor

Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada is the lead sponsor of 10 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • women in active labor

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • known contraindications to epidural analgesia
  • moderate to severe systemic illness as evidenced by an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score of 3 or higher.
  • known abnormalities of the spinal column
  • any neurologic illness
  • multiple gestations, fetal abnormalities or fetal presentation other than vertex
  • recent history of analgesic usage
  • an inability to communicate in English or French
  • Body Mass Index greater than 40
  • patients in pain requesting an immediate epidural
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Low epidural

    epidural placed in the lower lumbar vertebral column

    Procedure: epidural placed low

  • Experimental
    high epidural

    high epidural

    Procedure: high epidural

Interventions

  • Procedureepidural placed low

    epidural placed low

  • Procedurehigh epidural

    high epidural

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of epidural medication boluses required

    Time frame: 30 minutes and 1 hour

Secondary outcomes

  1. Labour progress

    Time frame: 24 hours

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Royal Victoria Hospital
    Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1, Canada
    • albert r moore, md · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Moore A, Villeneuve V, Bravim B, El-Bahrawy A, El-Mouallem E, Kaufman I, Hatzakorzian R, Li Pi Shan W. The Labor Analgesia Requirements in Nulliparous Women Randomized to Epidural Catheter Placement in a High or Low Intervertebral Space. Anesth Analg. 2017 Dec;125(6):1969-1974. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002076. PubMed 28504988 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 30, 2012, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00954317
Lead sponsor
Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada
Responsible party
Albert Moore (Dr., Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 7, 2009
Start date
Sep 2009
Primary completion
Jan 2014 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 2014 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 30, 2012

Study contacts

albert r moore, md
Contact
moore_albert@hotmail.com
514.934.1934 ext. 34880

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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