Why the study?
Does lumbar epidural block provide satisfactory analgesia in laboring women?
Does lumbar epidural block provide satisfactory analgesia in laboring women?
Lumbar epidural block provides satisfactory analgesia in over 90% of labors when managed carefully, with most partial failures traced to management errors.
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Careful epidural management may yield high labor analgesia success; case-report evidence leaves open need for prospective validation before practice change.
Andrew Doughty (1975) studied this question.
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