Epidural fever in obstetric patients: It's a hot topic

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 494-495

  Goetzl, Laura ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CEFOXITIN; PLACEBO; ROPIVACAINE; STEROID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL FEVER; FEVER; LOW DRUG DOSE; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CEFOXITIN; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84896826950     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000112     Document Type: Editorial

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