Update on modern neuraxial analgesia in labour: A review of the literature of the last 5 years

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 191-212

  Loubert, C ^a   Hinova, A ^b   Fernando, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; NEOSTIGMINE; PETHIDINE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

BREAST FEEDING; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABOR PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; NAUSEA; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PHARMACOGENETICS; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; VOMITING;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BREAST FEEDING; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; POST-DURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79951753852     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2010.06616.x     Document Type: Review

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