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Study aim
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Aim was comparison efficacy of bupivacaine in combination with sufentanil or bupivacaine in combination with meperidine or bupivacaine alone in spinal anesthesia in patients undergoing elective cesarean section.
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Design
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The phase 3 clinical trial with a control and parallel group, not blinded and unrandomized on 135 patients in three groups.
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Settings and conduct
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This evaluation is a clinical trial in phase 3, of pregnant women with indications for elective cesarean section and approved by a gynecologist at Ali ibn Abi Talib Hospital, as the study group. 135 cases with inclusion criteria are selected. Patients fall into three groups with non-randomized allocation without blinding, 45 cases in the first and 45 cases in the second intervention group and 45 in the control group.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Pregnant women with 17 to 45 years of age and class of American Society of Anesthesiologists 1 or 2 will include as study group, also patients with dissatisfaction with study, coagulopathy, increased intracranial pressure, injection site infection, severe intravascular volume decline, severe sensitivity to anesthesia and opioids, pregnancy hypertension, cesarean section requiring blood transfusion, chronic itching, emergency cesarean section because of fetal distress and longer than 1.5 hours of operation excluded from study.
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Intervention groups
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Before surgery, the first group received 12.5 mg of bupivacaine from Aburaihan pharmaceutical company along with 20 mg of meperidine from caspian pharmaceutical company, and =second group received 12.5 mg of bupivacaine from Aburaihan pharmaceutical company with 2.5 micrograms of sufentanil manufactured by Darou Pakhsh pharmaceutical company was used and in third group only 12.5 mg of bupivacaine was used by Abourihan pharmaceutical company.
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Main outcome variables
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Severity of pain after cesarean section