Regular intermittent bolus provides similar incidence of maternal fever compared with continuous infusion during epidural labor analgesia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the effects of regular intermittent bolus versus continuous infusion for epidural labor analgesia on maternal temperature and serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) level.

Methods

This randomized trial was performed in Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China between October 2012 and February 2014. Either regular intermittent bolus (RIB, n=66) or continuous infusion (CI, n=66) was used for epidural labor analgesia. A bolus dose (10 ml of 0.08% ropivacaine + 0.4 ug·ml-1 sufentanil) was manually administrated once an hour in the RIB group, whereas the same solution was continuously infused at a constant rate of 10 ml·h-1 in the CI group. Maternal tympanic temperature and serum IL-6 level were measured hourly from baseline to

SUBMITTER: Feng SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4362123 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature