# Maternal Epidural Steroids and Hyperthemia

> **NCT02212210** · EARLY_PHASE1 · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Medical University of South Carolina** · enrollment: 135 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Fever
- Labor Pain
- Complication of Anesthesia During Pregnancy, Unspecified

## Interventions

- **DRUG:** Methylprednisolone
- **DRUG:** Normal saline

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02212210
- **Lead sponsor:** Medical University of South Carolina
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** EARLY_PHASE1
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2012-02
- **Primary completion:** 2014-04
- **Final completion:** 2015-10
- **Target enrollment:** 135 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** PI permanently closed accrual for the study based on FDA warning issued in April 2014. Study is closed
- **Last updated:** 2017-08-29


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02212210

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02212210, "Maternal Epidural Steroids and Hyperthemia". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-09 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02212210. Licensed CC0.

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