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What are the effects of various methods of labor anesthesia on the fetus and perinatal outcomes?
What are the effects of various methods of labor anesthesia on the fetus and perinatal outcomes?
This review summarizes the effects of different labor anesthesia methods on fetal and perinatal outcomes from a neonatologist's perspective.
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Neonatologist synthesis may inform labor anesthesia choices; leaves open optimal methods pending higher-level evidence.
This review article presents the history of obstetric anesthesiology development, considers the methods and effects of non-medication anesthesia of labor, discusses the influence of narcotic and non-narcotic analgesics, neuroaxial methods of anesthesia and inhalation anesthesia on the fetus and perinatal outcomes.
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