Maternal Temperature Elevation and Occiput Posterior Position at Birth Among Low-Risk Women Receiving Epidural Analgesia

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 446-451

  Osborne, Cara ^a   Ecker, Jeffrey L ^b   Gauvreau, Kimberlee ^b,c   Davidson, Karen M ^b,d   Lieberman, Ellice ^b,d  

^a University of Arkansas in Fayetteville   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural; Fetal position; Fever; Intrapartum temperature; Labor; Occiput posterior

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FETAL HEAD POSITION; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR; MATERNAL AGE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCIPUT POSTERIOR POSITION; ORIENTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PRESENTATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PAIN; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84055218524     PISSN: 15269523     EISSN: 15422011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-2011.2010.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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