Pain management during labor
Open Access
- 21 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by H1 Connect in F1000 Medicine Reports
- Vol. 1 (5)
- https://doi.org/10.3410/m1-5
Abstract
Recent studies investigating the management of analgesia in childbirth have demonstrated that pain relief can be started early in labor with no negative consequences. Also of particular importance are studies showing that automated delivery of large boluses of diluted local anesthetic with opioids might be more effective than continuous background infusion of these drugs in patient-controlled epidural analgesia.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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