Update on best available options in obstetrics anaesthesia: Perinatal outcomes, side effects and maternal satisfaction. Fifteen years systematic literature review

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-34

  Gizzo, Salvatore ^a,b   Noventa, Marco ^a   Fagherazzi, Simone ^a   Lamparelli, Laura ^a   Ancona, Emanuele ^a   Di Gangi, Stefania ^a   Saccardi, Carlo ^a   D'Antona, Donato ^a   Nardelli, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UOC di Clinica Ginecologica e Ostetrica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidural analgesia; Labour pain; Maternal satisfaction; Neuraxial analgesia; Pharmacological schemes

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

CESAREAN SECTION; COMBINED SPINAL EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL INFUSION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERMITTENT EPIDURAL BOLUS; INTRAVENOUS PATIENT CONTROLLED EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; LABOR PAIN; NAUSEA; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT CONTROLLED INFUSION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 84903581863     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-014-3212-x     Document Type: Review

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