Nitrous oxide for pain in labor - Why not in the United States?

Birth

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-5

  Rooks, Judith P ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRONOX; NITROUS OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE PLUS OXYGEN; OPIATE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; UNITED STATES; URINE CATHETER; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; MIDWIFERY; NITROUS OXIDE; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847065897     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2006.00150.x     Document Type: Editorial

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