Regional analgesia and progress of labor

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 633-645

  Sharma, Shiv K ^a   Leveno, Kenneth J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; BUTORPHANOL; FENTANYL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE; OXYTOCIN; PETHIDINE;

BRADYCARDIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINED SPINAL EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; DYSTOCIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FEVER; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABOR; LABOR PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPARA; NEWBORN; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PARITY; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0141787113     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200309000-00016     Document Type: Review

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