Delivering Empowering Conversations About Obstetric Regional Anesthesia for Underserved Minorities
Study Phase: N/A
Recruitment Status: Recruiting
Start Date: March 01, 2022
End Date: June 30, 2023
Inclusion Criteria:
- Parturient patients being admitted to the labor and delivery unit at The Mount Sinai Hospital.
- Patients of age 18 or greater with a singleton fetus of at least 37 weeks of gestation that present in spontaneous labor, for induction of labor, or augmentation of labor.
- Patients in the first stage of labor and who have consented for placement of a labor epidural.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who are in severe labor pain following verbal informed consent prohibiting them from participating in the discussion,
- Patients who present with a coagulopathy or on anticoagulation medications that exclude them from receiving labor epidural analgesia,
- Patients who do not consent to labor epidural placement, or if they are on a mid-wife service.
- Patients that are converted to a cesarean delivery following trial of labor