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])
 
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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.
 

Fig 1. Effects of labour pain on rear and fetus
 
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
 

Table 1. Advanced techniques for regional laborer narcosis
 
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).
 

Table 2. Management of local anaesthetic systemic toxicity
 
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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