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Study aim
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Comparison of the efficacy of acetaminophen and pethidine in reducing the pain of the first stage of labor and the maternal complications
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Design
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Clinical trial with two interventional groups, community based and pragmatic, with parallel groups, one blinded, randomised
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Settings and conduct
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Prevention, Maternity of Niknafas Hospital, for both groups from the beginning of the active phase of labor (dilatation 4 cm), the administration of the drug (acetaminophen or pethidine) will begin according to the intervention group, the subject and the person evaluating the variables on which individual to which group Allocated, will not be informed.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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inclusion criteria: term pregnant women requesting a reduction in labor pain, single with cephalic presentation, No known fetal growth disorder or abnormalities; exclusion criteria: history of medical illness (cardiac, hepatic, renal, pulmonary), preeclampsia, diabetes, drug abuse, acetaminophen and opioid sensitivity, G6PD deficiency), cesarean section history.
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Intervention groups
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First Intervention group receiving 100 mg acetaminophen in 100 cc serum ringer lactate within 15 minutes and second intervention group receiving 50 mg pethidine within 2 minutes
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Main outcome variables
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Pain,duration of delivery, maternal complications