Labor Pain Management Other Than Neuraxial: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go Next?

Birth

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 318-322

  Rooks, Judith P ^a  

^a American College of Nurse Midwives   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor pain; Nitrous oxide; Nonpharmacologic; Opioids

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE; PETHIDINE;

ANALGESIA; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR PAIN; METHODOLOGY; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MEPERIDINE; NITROUS OXIDE; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84869857443     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/birt.12009     Document Type: Article

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