Clinical Study
Labour Analgesia When Epidural Is Not a Choice: Tramadol versus Pentazocine
Table 1
Maternal characteristics among the two groups.
| Characteristics | Tramadol
| Pentazocine
| value |
| Age (mean ± SD) | 27.15 ± 2.99 | 26.68 ± 3.23 | 0.552 | Height cm (mean ± SD) | 155.63 ± 6.50 | 155.04 ± 5.35 | 0.708 | Weight kg (mean ± SD) | 64.93 ± 6.71 | 64.80 ± 6.55 | 0.941 | Primigravida (%) Multigravida | 25 (62.5) 15 (37.5) | 19 (76) 06 (24) | 0.326 | Gestational age weeks (mean ± SD) | 37.73 ± 1.62 | 38.24 ± 1.36 | 0.190 | Cervical dilatation at initiation of analgesia cm (mean ± SD) | 3.11 ± 0.737 | 3.12 ± 0.726 | 0.130 | Systolic BP before analgesia mm Hg (mean ± SD) | 123.2 ± 6.12 | 123.2 ± 7.21 | 1.000 |
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