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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 6, 153-158, Copyright © 1959 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

An Investigation of Ataraxics in Labour: Meprobamate (Equanil®)

JOHN J. CARROLL M.D., C.M.1 and ROBERT S. MOIR M.B., CH.B.1

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, Vancouver Grace Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.

Meprobamate was used orally, early in labour, for relaxation of seventy-four patients (fifty primiparas, twenty-four multiparas). Emotional tension was relieved in a significant proportion of patients.

The findings in this study would seem to indicate that the compound should be used for the express purpose of allaying the anxiety and apprehension attendant upon the early phases of the first stage, prior to the need of analgesia. Meprobamate is neither an analgesic nor a potentiator of analgesics.

Meprobamate appears to have no deleterious effect on the mechanism of parturition or on the foetus. One patient exhibited cutaneous evidences of sensitivity. Labour proceeded normally, however, and the infant was delivered safely.






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