Cesarean delivery: A randomized trial of epidural versus patient- controlled meperidine analgesia during labor

Anesthesiology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 487-494

  Sharma, Shiv K ^a   Sidawi, J Elaine ^b   Ramin, Susan M ^b   Lucas, Michael J ^b   Leveno, Kenneth J ^b   Cunningham, F Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; Labor epidural; Patient controlled analgesia

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; NALOXONE; OXYTOCIN; PETHIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEPERIDINE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0030873874     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199709000-00006     Document Type: Article

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