Clinical Trial: Nociception Level Index (NOL Index) for Obstetrical Pain Assessment Under Epidural Analgesia.
Study Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Recruit Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Condition: Labor Pain
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: The Interest of the Nociception Index (Nociception Level Index, NOL Index) for the Evaluation of Obstetric Pain Under Epidural Analgesia: a Prospective Pilot Study
Brief Summary:
Pain has been defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".Labour pain is the pain experienced during labour and childbirth and it's characterised by nociceptive pain accompanied by sympathetic activation.Since more than fifty years, the development of hospital obstetric assistance for labour, allowed the implementation of the pain…
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