Combined spinal-epidural for labor analgesia.
Publication/Presentation Date
6-1-1999
Abstract
Since the introduction of the combined spinal-epidural technique in the early 1980s it has gained increasing popularity for analgesia and anesthesia in labor and delivery. The benefit of the rapid onset of analgesia from the intrathecal injection, coupled with the flexibility of an epidural catheter that can provide a long duration of labor analgesia or conversion to an anesthetic when operative delivery is necessary, has made combined spinal-epidural the labor analgesic of choice in many obstetric anesthesia practices.
Volume
12
Issue
3
First Page
295
Last Page
298
ISSN
0952-7907
Published In/Presented At
Buxbaum J. L. (1999). Combined spinal-epidural for labor analgesia. Current opinion in anaesthesiology, 12(3), 295–298. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001503-199906000-00006
Disciplines
Anesthesiology | Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
17013326
Department(s)
Department of Anesthesiology
Document Type
Article