Abstract
Background: Neuraxial anesthesia is considered as the gold standard in the control labor of pain. Its variants are epidural analgesia and combined spinal-epidural analgesia. Few studies, as yet, have investigated the duration of labor as a primary outcome. Some authors have suggested that combined spinal-epidural analgesia may reduce labor duration but at the moment the benefit of shortening labor is uncertain. The main aim of this study was to compare combined spinal-epidural with epidural analgesia in terms of their effect on duration of stage I labor, maternal, and neonatal outcomes. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted. Parturients who requested analgesia at cervical dilatation
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3559-3565 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 21 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2019 |
Keywords
- Augmentation of labor
- fetal monitoring
- labor analgesia
- labor duration
- Adult
- *Analgesia, Epidural/methods
- Analgesia, Obstetrical/*methods
- Anesthesia, Epidural/methods
- *Anesthesia, Spinal/methods
- Cohort Studies
- Combined Modality Therapy
- Female
- Heart Rate, Fetal/drug effects
- Humans
- Labor Stage, First/*drug effects/physiology
- Labor, Obstetric/drug effects/physiology
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Outcome
- Young Adult