Why the study?
Does epidural anesthesia during labor improve maternal outcomes and suppress blood pressure increases in pregnant women with cardiovascular disease?
Population
277 pregnant women with cardiovascular disease
Comparison
Epidural anesthesia during labor vs No epidural anesthesia during labor
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
During labor
Authors
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May blunt intrapartum SBP rise in CVD pregnancies; observational data leave net cardiovascular event effect open.
Does epidural anesthesia during labor improve maternal outcomes and suppress blood pressure increases in pregnant women with cardiovascular disease?
Epidural anesthesia during labor in pregnant women with cardiovascular disease prevents systolic blood pressure increases, though the abstract reports conflicting data regarding the absolute number of cardiovascular events.
Tanaka et al. (2018) studied this question.
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