Epidural analgesia compared with combined spinal-epidural analgesia during labor in nulliparous women

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 1715-1719

  Nageotte, Michael P ^a,c   Larson, David ^a   Rumney, Pamela J ^a   Sidhu, Mohan ^a   Hollenbach, Katherine ^b  

^a LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Box 1428 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; INFUSION FLUID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTOCIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILIZATION; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CESAREAN SECTION; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 0030717538     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199712113372402     Document Type: Article

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