Maintenance of Epidural Analgesia for Labor - Continuous Infusion or Patient Controlled

Evidence-based Obstetric Anesthesia

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-29

  Halpern, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuous epidural infusion (CEI); Epidural labor analgesia; Hypotension; Neonatal outcomes; Patientcontrolled epidural analgesia (PCEA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649166062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988343.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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