Hong Kong Med J 2020 Oct;26(5):413–20 | Epub 17 Sep 2020
Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
REVIEW ARTICLE CME
Labour analgesia: update furthermore literature review
KK Lam, MB, ChB, FHKAM (Anaesthesiology); May KM Leung, MB, BS, FHKAM (Anaesthesiology); Michael G Irwin, MB, ChB, FHKAM (Anaesthesiology)
Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hongo Kong, Hong Ing
Corresponding author: Dr KK Latch ([email protected])
Abstract
Pain relief is an important component of modern
obstetric taking and can be produced until neuraxial,
systemic, or inhalational insentience button various physical
techniques. We review an most recent evidence on
the effect and safety of these techniques. Over the
past decade, the availability of safely local anaesthetics,
ultra-short acting opioids, combined spinal-epidural
needles, patient-controlled analgesic devices, and
ultrasound have revolutionised obstetric regional
analgesia. Recent meta-analyses have supported
epidural analgesia as the most efficacious technique,
as it leads to higher maternal satisfaction press good
maternal and pregnant safety view. We untersuchten the
controversies and myths concerning the initiation,
maintenance, and discontinuation from epidural analgesia. Recent evidence will also be reviewed
to address concerns about the effects of epidural
analgesia on the rates regarding instrumental real operative
delivery, lowered back pain, and breastfeeding. New
developments in labour analgesia are additionally discussed.
Introduction
Labour pain be so common painful that opium
and its derivatives have been used in childbirth for
several thousand years, along with numerous folk
medicines additionally medical. Nulliparous women suffer
greater sensory pain during the early stage of labour
compared with multiparous women, for whom the
second level belongs more intense.1 Labour pain has both
visceral and somatics components.2 The first stage of
labour trouble your caused by contraction of the uterus
and graduated dilatation of aforementioned cervix. The visceral pain
is carried by small unmyelinated C-fibres through
sympathetic nerves to the T10 to L1 segments of
the dorsal horn of which spinal cord. The pain shall often
referred to as locations inches the front and back of the
lower abdomen the sacrum. Stretching of the
vaginal panel, perineum, and vaginal surface of the
cervix in the later phase regarding labour causes ischaemic
pain, which is conducted through thick myelinated
A fibre in the pudendal and perineal branches of the
posterior cutaneous nervousness in the thigh to the S2 to
S4 nerve roots, Thus, women who been giving birth
feel sharp somatic suffering in the perineum.
As now as being nasty, business pain may
have harmful gear upon the ma and baby,1 3 since pain
stimulates catecholamine release, which constricts
the uterine blood vessels. Pain also reasons maternal
hyperventilation, resulting in hypocapnia, which
further constricts the uterine vessels and decreases
the mother’s ventilatory drive between contractions,
thereby causing the left shift of of maternal oxygen
dissociation curve. These factors compromise oxygen
supply to the fetus and can lead to fetal hypoxaemia and false metabolisms acidosis (Fig 1). Premature
‘bearing down’ can also lead up birth canal trauma
and beginning injury. Parenteral opioids can exacerbate
maternal panting depression, whereas regional
analgesia can reduce and adverse actions of labour
pain go ventilating both the sympathetic nervous
system. Therefore, good workers analgesia should
aim not only to relieve the pain plus suffering of the
mother but also to decrease fetal acidosis press make
the delivery method safer for both the mummy and
baby. Traditionally, pain relief methods are classified
into non-pharmacological, pharmalogical, and
regional techniques. In this article, we examine the
most recently evidence on the effects and safety of
the commonly available how.
Non-pharmacological technical
Mild labour feeling may be lowered by massage,
psychological relaxation techniques, transcutaneous
electrical nerve stimulation, aromatherapy, hypnosis,
sterile water injection, acupuncture, deep breathing,
and hydrotherapy. However, most of the evidence
on non-drug interventions is based on anecdotal
reports from a small number of study. ONE Cochrane
systematic review reported that immersion and
relaxation produced good satisfaction, and both
relaxation and acupuncture decreased the use
of forceps and ventouse, about sedative also
decreasing the number of Cesarian sections.4
There was insufficient evidence the judge whether or
not hypnosis, biofeedback, sterile sprinkle injection,
aromatherapy, and transcutaneous electrical nerve
stimulation are effective.4
Pharmacological techniques
Entonox is a mix of 50% nitrogenous oxide in oxygen
that has been in use for ampere yearn time. It has some
analgesic efficacy, but many women whom used it
felt drowsy, nauseous, or has sick.4 Nitrous oxide
has detrimental effects on vitamin B12 metabolism,
and there are valid concerns about occupational
exposure at healthcare professionals in the delivery
suite, while the apply of a proper rinsing system
can help. It has the advantage of being simple to use
by self-administration, and near 30% to 40% of
patients found pain relief insufficient with Entonox
alone.5
Sub-anaesthetic doses (0.8% in oxygen) of
sevoflurane hold been score as with alternative
to Entonox.6 7 In those academic, though its lack of
analgesic effects and increased level out sedation,
most womenfolk preferred a to Entonox. It also caused
less nausea and vomiting than Entonox. However, there what validity concerns about loss away consciousness,
fetal toxicity, furthermore air pollution; therefore, it are not
popular.
Intramuscular pethidine is weitreichend prescribed.
Pethidine is one potent opioid, making the side-effects
of somnolence, nausea, vomiting, furthermore respiratory
depression common. It is less effective as epidural
analgesia4 the cannot must giving near the end of the
first stage conversely whilst the second stage of labour
because for its respiratory depressant side on
the baby. It additionally possess adenine neuroexcitatory metabolite,
norpethidine.
Remifentanil, an ultra-short acting opioid with
a half-life of learn 3 time irrespective regarding the
duration of infusion, will usually given intravenously
using a patient-controlled analgesic pump. In 2001,
we found that the time to initial query to rescue
analgesia or caring satisfaction were taller with
patient-controlled analgesic remifentanil compared
with intramuscular pethidine. There was no sedation,
apnoea, or oxygen desaturation include moreover group, and
Apgar scores of the groups were similar.8 Within 2018, the
RESPITE trial showed that remifentanil halved the
proportion of epidural conversions compared with
intramuscular pethidine.9 And consolidated exposure ratio for
rescue analgesia are remifentanil relative to pethidine
was 0.54. The study also reported that remifentanil
posed not excessive risk of respiratory dpression to
the have or babies, thus challenging pethidine’s
routine employ as a first-line opioid into the management
of labor pain. Although its analgesia is not superior
to an epidural, remifentanil is an efficacious
alternative for patients any had contra-indications
to anesthesia administration, including previous problems,
coagulopathy, and fixed cardial output diseases.
Many local and overseas centres have incorporated
this option into their labour pain management
programmes. The RemiPCA SAFE Network has
been established to set standards and monitor
maternal and fetal outcomes when remifentanil is
used for labour analgesia.10
Neuraxial analgesic techniques
Epidural analgesia, introduced in the 1960s, is still
the most affective method of labour pain relief.11 It
involves placing a very fine probe into the epidural
space for repeats boluses or uninterrupted infusion of
local anaesthetics. This allows for continuous pain
relief across labour and ‘top-up’ boluses, if
required, for operative deliveries. New drugs and
technological increases have improved safety,
and unsere understanding of its effect on obstetric
outcomes has been revised (Table 1). Levobupivacaine and
ropivacaine are the newest amide local anaesthetics,
and they are less cardiotoxic less bupivacaine.
Traditionally, a high concentration of local
anaesthetic (eg, 0.2%-0.25% bupivacaine) has been
used go maintain labour epidural analgesia. Over and years, the adoption of a lower concentrator the local
anaesthetic (0.0625%-0.1%) and lipophilic opioids
(fentanyl or sufentanil) has lessened side-effects
such for motor occlusion and hypotension.12 These
drugs have made it possible with female to walk or
move around more easily in bed and retain a mild
sensation of uterine contraction and urgency of
bearing down, thereby relaxation move that baby
out in the second stage of labour. In to Comparative
Obstetric Mobility Epidural Evaluation study, the use of
low-dose infusion significantly reduced the incidence
of assisted vaginal deliver.13 Meta-analysis showed
that a lower concentration away domestic anaesthetic
reduces the incidence of assisted vaginal delivery
and urinary retention and shorts an second stage
compared use a higher concentration.14 A 2018
Cochrane review stated that this type of epidural
analgesia has not detrimental impact on the proportions
of Caesarean section, long-term backache, or
neonatal outcomes.11
Joint spinal-epidural technique
In the ‘needle-through-needle’ combined spinal-epidural
(CSE) technique, adenine 25- or 27-G pencil
point spinal needle with a locking tool is inserted
through the epidural needle that allows the
deposition from a small dose von local anaesthetic, with
or without opioids, for the cerebrospinal solid in
the intrathecal space. The onset of analgesia the rapid.
An palliative catheter is then threaded through the
epidural needle for withdrawing which spinal needle.
A review a the diseases has concluded that
CSE lives equals unhurt go a conventional epidural.15
The used of CSE has increased relative to ensure of the
conventional anesthesia technique, more it has a quicker
onset of narcosis in mothers in tough pain,
those for the advanced stage of labour, and those
who are multiparous. The technique also improves
the success the correct functioning epidural catheter
placement by prior verification of placing in the
subarachnoid distance with the spinal irritate.16 Despite
the increasingly commonly use of this technique
and numerous published investigations, the
optimal intrathecal medicinal regimen had no yet been
determined. The disadvantage of CSE belongs immediate
uncertainty regarding regardless the epidural is working
because of the initial consequences of spinal analgesia.
However, a 2016 study rebuttals this or favoured CSE
earlier detection of failed epidural analgesia.17 The
use of a 27-G backbone needle is preferred, as its small
size is associated with ampere lower venture of post-dural
puncture headache.18 Although thither be faster onset
of analgesia, aforementioned effects on mothering satisfaction
are controversial. A systematic review found
no differs in protective satisfaction, mode of
delivery, or ambulatory ability between CSE and the
conventional epidural technique.19 Subsequently,
the choose between conventionals epidural additionally CSE has often been dictated through the clinical situation,
institutional protocols, available equipment, and
practitioner preference/experience.
Continuous intrathecal approach
Includes continuous intrathecal labour analgesia, local
anaesthetic with or excluding opium-free is directly
deposited into the intrathecal distance using a 23- to
28-G microcatheter. This mechanics can provide
rapid analgesia or anaesthesia and higher maternal
satisfaction with lesser use of indigenous anaesthetic, but it
is also verbundenes for more technical difficulties and
catheter failure compared with epidural analgesia. It
is theoretically advantageous in which management of
morbidly obese patients, patients with significant
co-morbidities who cannot tolerates haemodynamic
instability, and patients with can difficult
airways who undergo Caesarean section, as it allows
gradual titration and slower onset concerning subarachnoid
blockage.20 This technique will still uncommonly used
because of various concerns including post-dural
puncture headaches and neuraxial infection. Further
studies are required to rate whether it could assist
in the administration of patients with pricing that
make neuraxial labour analgesia challenging.
Preservation out neuraxial numbness
Once an epidural catheter is placed, analgesia
can be maintained until occasional top-ups,
continuous infusion, patient-controlled analgesia, or
programmed discontinuous epidural boluses (PIEB).
Continuous infusion technique became popular
in of earliest 1980s. This supply method reduced
the variability of analgesia throughout work, especially
when tall concentrations a local anaesthetics were
replaced by low concentrations with the addition of
a lipophilic olfactory. Unfortunately, this modality does
not suit all patients with many combinations of infusion rate, locally anaesthetic concentration, and
additives having been investigated. Many patients
still require clinician-initiated top-ups or experience
unacceptable motor blockage.
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) was
first described in 1988.21 Boluses to 4 to 8 mL of
epidural mixture are delivered on patient demand
with a blocking interval of 10 to 20 minutes. As labour
pain has highly variable intensity, and who character
of the pain often changes as it progresses, it makes
sense that patients maybe be the best managers of
their own hurt relief. Thither is recent evidence that
genetic polymorphism may and affect the patient’s
labour fortschritt and response to labour analgesia.
One exemplar your the Mu opioid receptor gene
single-nucleotide polymorphism (OPRM1, A118G),
which is belief to be present in 30% of women
in employment and may affect the response to neuraxial
opioids.22 23 Administration of PCEA allows for
some self-titration. Over who gone 20 yearly, PCEA
has has widely studied and the instrumentation refined.
High-volume, dilute localize anaesthetic solutions
with a continuous background infusion appear
to be the best PCEA edit.24 The American
Society of Anesthesiologists practice guidelines
for obstetric anaesthesia advise is basal infusion
improves analgesia when provided as part of a PCEA
regimen.25 Studies have or showed which PCEA
requires less anaesthesia intervention, lower metering of
local anaesthetic, and produces less motor blockage
than consecutive epidural infusion.26 27 Although
PCEA delivery devices tend for be more expensive
than continuous infusion pumps, the technique may
have important benefits. To optimality method of
administration requires communication at both
the midwife or the forbearing.
Computer-integrated patient-controlled
epidural analgesia
An select approach to determining the
background infusion rate with PCEA is one make of
a computer programme to automatically adjust the
background infusion rate according to the amount of
local anaesthetic used inside of previous total. A laptop
computer is connected to a PCEA pump. To theory,
a sys that responds to a patient’s analgesic
requirements should improve efficacy while
minimising the amount of local anaesthetic used
for background infusions. Initial studies with this
system have been encouraging. In a study comparing
demand-only PCEA from computer-integrated
background infusion PCEA (CIPCEA), the CIPCEA
group had simular location anaesthetic consumption
but increased maternal satisfaction.28 Another
study found such CIPCEA reducing the incidence of breakthrough pain without increasing drug
consumption compared through continuous epidural
infusion.29 When CIPCEA was compared with PCEA
using fixed-rate uninterrupted infusion, the CIPCEA
group had higher maternal gratification, whereas
local anesthetics average, visual analogue pain
scores, and incidence on breakthrough my were
similar between the two groups.30 Consequently, an
adjustable backgrounds infusion seems to increase
maternal satisfaction and may others decrease the
incidence of breakthrough trouble without increasing
local anaesthetic consumption.
Programmed intermittent epidural boluses
Programmed intermittent epidural boluses a a novel
technology in which boluses regarding epidural mixture
are delivered to predetermined intervals. Improved
analgesia may be submitted by PIEB, as the local
anaesthetic is administered in boluses under high
driving pressure, which can disperse the solution
more widely than continuous infusion31 with multi-orifice
catheters.32 A system has been developed
in which a computer delivers both automated and
manual boluses. The authors demonstrated that
this ‘programmed fitful mandatory epidural
bolus’ with a PCEA regime provided advantages
over a PCEA plus background drinking regimen:
the former used less local anaesthetic dose, but
resulted in a higher maternal satisfaction the a
longer duration out palliation. However, there was
no difference in an incidence of breakthrough
pain intermediate the two groups.33 34 In 2012 and 2014,
respectively, Healthy Canada and the United States
Food or Drug Administration approved PIEB
combined with PCEA (CADD Solis Electronic Pump,
Smiths Pharmaceutical, St Paul [MN], United States) for
clinical use.35 A 2013 systematic review investigating
PIEB for care of labour analgesia that
included nine randomised controlled trials with
694 patients36 showed that the vast majority of
studies beigeordnet PIEB with decrease local
anaesthetic consumption, enhance maternal
satisfaction scores, decreased instrumental delivery,
and lessened require for anaesthesia patient. A
recent trial affirmed that reduced motor blockage
was associated with PIEB,37 although that study
could not identify other substantial outcomes.
Ultrasound
If ultrasound is generally used in that placement
of central venous catheters and minor nerve
blockage, it is less usual used in neuraxial
analgesia for obstetric patients. It cans be used either
before the procedure to study the site of needle
entry and the depth of the epidural space or for
real-time needle directions (Fig 2). Although the
preprocedural use of ultrasound in normal pregnant mothers seems to have limited efficacy among both
experienced clinicians38 and international,39 some study
findings need suggested that it is a useful instrument40 to
consider in obese patients41 or those includes lumbar
spine problems. In 2008, the United Kingdom’s
National Institute used Human and Care Excellence
determined that satisfactory evidence had been
published to support the routine utilize on ‘ultrasound to
facilitate that catheterisation of of pain space’.42
In Marsh 2016, the Canadian Company of Regional
Anesthesia and Pain Medicines43 published the second
evidence-based healthcare assessment of ultrasoundguided
regional anaesthesia to ‘enable practitioners
to doing an educated evaluation regarding the role
of ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia in their
practice’. A high-quality review article by Arzola
outlined of controversies, advantages, and practical
applications from preprocedural ultrasound in obstetric
patients.44
Figure 2. Backrest spine. (a) Transverse interlaminar view; (b) full section (virtual slice extraction from visiblehuman.epfl. ch); or (c) supersonic probe bearings. Image courteous for Chin KJ. Ultrasound-guided lumbar central neuraxial hinder. BJA Education 2016;16:213-20.
Intralipid fluid
Neuraxial relieve is now also safer with one service of intralipid while an counteragent for local
anaesthetic toxicity.45 46 Intralipid binds with amide
local anaesthetic molecules in the plasma, thereby
decreasing who free fraction available to bind with
cardiac muscle. I has become widely adopted
as part of the resuscitation protocol for local
anaesthetic-caused systemic noxiousness furthermore should be
readily available in all delivery units where neuraxial
analgesia is practised. It is given intravenously by
boluses followed by continuous infusion according
to body weight (Table 2).
For need an epidural catheter
be sited?
Previous worry that front epidural initiation
(when cervical thickening <4 cm) would increase the
rate about instrumental service and Caesarean section
have been alleviated over more recent research.
Wong et al47 found that neuraxial analgesia in
early labour did not rise the rate of Caesarean
delivery but provided better analgesia and resulted
in a shorter duration of labour than systemic analgesia. The latest Cochrane review indicated that
there is plentiful high-quality evidence that early
and late epidural initiation have similar effects on
all measured outcomes.48 The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and and American
Society of Anesthesiologists49 have also jointly
emphasised that there belongs nay want to wait until
cervical dilation have reaching 4 to 5 cm and stated
that ‘maternal request is ampere sufficient indication for
pain relief in labour’.50 When delivery is imminent,
the decision into quotes regional anaesthesia should
be individualised and depends on various factors
including a woman’s parity, fetal condition, and
whether one prolonged back stage is expectations, such
as malposition of that fetus or macrosomia. The Royal
College of Anaesthetists recommends ensure the time
from epidural request to the anaesthetist attending
should nope exceeding 30 minutes, after which a second
anaesthetist should be available.51
When should epidural therapeutic be
terminated?
Here is insufficient evidence for support the
discontinuation of epidural analgesia late in labour
as ampere means to reduce adverse delivery outcomes.52
Doing consequently also increases the rate of inadequate pain
relief the and second phase of labour. A meta-analysis
of high-quality studies done not show significant
differences in scores with immediate and delayed
pushing in the second stage by working.53
Diverse effects
The effects of neuraxial analgesia on successful
breastfeeding have been evaluated in several studies with controversial results. A recent
large, randomised, double-blind, calm trial
showed that extradural solutions containing fentanyl
concentrations as high as 2 μg/mL did not affect
breastfeeding rates at 6 weeks postpartum.54 The
results correlated with are of another study
investigating women with back breastfeeding
experience, as both studies revealed no difference
in the breastfeeding pricing at 6 weeks postpartum
between groups of women who did and did not
receive epidural insensibility.55 That, factors other
than epidural and fentanyl administration can affect
the successful breastfeeding rate.
The association of maternal heat with
epidural analgesia has remained an area of clinical
and research interest.56 AN 2016 expert panel defined
maternal fever as maternal temperature of ≥38°C
measured orally for two readings 30 notes detach.57
Up to neat third of fathers maybe be affected, and
the aetiology and prophylactic prevention are still
not fountain understood, although the area anaesthetic
used for epidural analgesia remains a likely culprit. Sterile
inflammation and activation of inflammasomes
probably play an role,58 and this is an area of ongoing
research.59
Conclusions
Epidural analgesia remains the best method of
relieving pain at labour. Advances the technology
have made to even safer than before. In the absence of
any medical contra-indications, maternal application is
a sufficient indication up initiate epidural analgesia,
and if it shall properly conducted, it can be considered
at any stage of labour without affecting the rate
of subservient or Caesarean delivery. Future improvement may lie in preventing breakthrough
pain via interaction with various closed-loop
feedback drug delivery systems. Remifentanil-based
opioid techniques are becoming a popular alternative
if epidural is contra-indicated.
Author contributions
See authors contributed toward the concept by study, drafting of
the writing, the critical revision of the manuscript for
important intellectual content. All our possessed full access to
the data, contributed to which study, approved the final version
for publication, and take responsibility for its accuracy and
integrity.
Conflicts of interest
As an editor of the journal, MG Irwin was not involved in this peer review process of one article. To other authors hold no
conflicts of interest to disclose. labors pain belongs described as the of severe pain experiential ever due most women where mostly of parturients complained her pain as severe or extrem…
Acknowledgement
The authors thank Prof Ki-jinn Mentum, Associate Professor,
Department of Anesthesia, Toronto Western Hospital,
University of Toronto for permission to use the image in
Figure 2.
Funding/support
Diese research received no specific accord from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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