Key result
Lumbar epidural analgesia remains the gold standard for labor pain management despite complications like hypotension, based on a literature review of 5,018 articles.
Why the study?
What are the past, present, and future techniques, complications, and myths surrounding labor epidural analgesia?
Population
Women in labor
Design
Review
Authors
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Supports vigilance for hypotension with labor epidurals; extends literature synthesis while leaving optimization questions open.
What are the past, present, and future techniques, complications, and myths surrounding labor epidural analgesia?
This review summarizes the current state of labor epidural analgesia, confirming it as the gold standard while highlighting common complications and dispelling myths about its adverse effects on labor progression.
Paul et al. (2014) conducted a review in Labor pain. Labor epidural analgesia was evaluated. Lumbar epidural analgesia remains the gold standard for labor pain management despite complications like hypotension, based on a literature review of 5,018 articles.
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