Intrathecal sufentanil for labor analgesia: Do sensory changes predict better analgesia and greater hypotension?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 346-351

  Riley, Edward T ^a   Ratner, Emily F ^a   Cohen, Sheila E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE RECEPTOR; SUFENTANIL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABOR COMPLICATION; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SENSATION; SUFENTANIL;

EID: 0031053732     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199702000-00019     Document Type: Article

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