Combined spinal-epidural analgesia for labor: Breakthrough or unjustified invasion?

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 109-121

  Landau, Ruth ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; SUFENTANIL;

EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABOR; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUNCTURE; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TECHNIQUE; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VOMITING;

EID: 0036224616     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sper.2002.32204     Document Type: Article

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