A randomized trial of dural puncture epidural technique compared with the standard epidural technique for labor analgesia

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1646-1651

  Cappiello, Eric ^a   O'Rourke, Nollag ^a   Segal, Scott ^a   Tsen, Lawrence C ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; MEPIVACAINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMATOME; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NAUSEA; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SACRUM; SIDE EFFECT; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; ANALGESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; LABOR; LABOR STAGE 1; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PUNCTURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MEPIVACAINE; PREGNANCY; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SUFENTANIL;

EID: 56149124092     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318184ec14     Document Type: Article

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