This study is to study the success rate of using the epidural catheter that was placed during the labor for the surgical anesthesia to perform a postpartum tubal ligation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
18
Use of the existing continuous labor epidural for surgical anesthetic for postpartum tubal ligation
This group was assigned to receive spinal anesthetic for postpartum tubal ligation.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Success Rate of Reactivation of Existing Continuous Labor Epidural Catheter for Postpartum Tubal Ligation
Rate of reactivation of the epidural catheter for postpartum tubal ligation in the group that was randomized to the epidural anesthetic group. (Need for additional supplemental analgesics and sedatives or the need to convert to general anesthesia.)
Time frame: at the time of surgery
Impact of Anesthesia Type on OR (Operating Room) Efficiency
The time minutes)from initiation of anesthesia to surgery start.
Time frame: minutes until surgery start
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