Paracetamol versus Meperidine in Relief of Labour Pain in Primiparous Women A Randomized Controlled Trial

Abstract

Labor pain includes components that differ completely from pain in general. It is the result of natural events and has a special meaning, leading in most cases to something extremely positive, the birth of a healthy child. Labour is a painful condition, considered to be one of the most intense and stressful experiences especially for nulliparous women. Although studies have found significant rise in pain threshold during labour. It is nonetheless an important goal to provide safe and effective methods of analgesia for women in pain in order, amongest other reasons, to obtain her maximum cooperation. The most effective non-invasive pharmacological intervention is through the use of opioids or tramadol injection through an epidural catheter. Other effective interventions include combined spinal/epidural analgesia, low-dose epidural analgesia, as well as, patient-controlled analgesia. Those pharmacological techniques, despite being effective, yet require participation of an expert anesthesiologist, costly equipment and continuous maternal and fetal electronic monitoring tools, which are not readil