Patient-controlled epidural analgesia or continuous infusion: Advantages and disadvantages of different modes of delivering epidural analgesia for labour

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 253-256

  Stienstra, Rudolf ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY;

EID: 0034041396     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200006000-00002     Document Type: Article

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