A randomized controlled trial of the efficacy and respiratory effects of patient-controlled intravenous remifentanil analgesia and patient-controlled epidural analgesia in laboring women

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 589-597

  Stocki, Daniel ^a,b   Matot, Idit ^b   Einav, Sharon ^c   Eventov Friedman, Smadar ^a   Ginosar, Yehuda ^a   Weiniger, Carolyn F ^a,d  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; REMIFENTANIL;

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; APGAR SCORE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CAPNOMETRY; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LABOR PAIN; NAUSEA; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN BREATHING; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PIPERIDINES; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896710335     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182a7cd1b     Document Type: Article

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