Relative Analgesic Potencies of Levobupivacaine and Ropivacaine for Epidural Analgesia in Labor

Anesthesiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1354-1358

  Polley, Linda S ^a,f   Columb, Malachy O ^e   Naughton, Norah N ^a   Wagner, Deborah S ^d   Van De Ven, Cosmas J M ^b   Goralski, Kathryn H ^c  

^a Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology   (United States)

^b Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^e MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AMIDES; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0345283293     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200312000-00017     Document Type: Article

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