Periodicum biologorum, Vol. 111 No. 2, 2009.
Review article
Modern neuraxial labor analgesia: options for initiation, maintenance and drug selection
MARC VAN DE VELDE
; Director Obstetric Anesthesia and Extra Muros Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B–3000 Leuven, Belgium
Abstract
Most authors would agree that central neuraxial analgesia is the best
form to manage labor pain. When neuraxial analgesia is administered to the parturient in labor, different management choices must be made by the anesthetist: how will we initiate analgesia, how will analgesia be maintained, which local anesthetic will we use for neuraxial analgesia and which adjuvant drugs will we combine? The present manuscript tries to review the literature to answer these questions.
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Publication date:
15.6.2009.
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