Neuraxial analgesia provides excellent pain relief in labor. Optimizing initiation and
maintenance of neuraxial labor analgesia requires different strategies. Combined spinal …

A patient's sense of empowerment and control is most predictive of maternal satisfaction with
childbirth. Analgesia during labor greatly affects this experience. Individual patient priorities …

BACKGROUND: The dural puncture epidural (DPE) technique is associated with faster
onset than the conventional epidural (EP) technique for labor analgesia. The programmed …

Epidural analgesia is an important means of pain control during labor throughout the world.
Over its historic development, it has been implicated in several undesirable outcomes …

In recent years, many neuraxial techniques have been introduced to initiate and maintain
labour analgesia, with low-dose mixtures of local anaesthetics and opioids, which have …

During labor mother and fetus are evaluated at intervals to assess their well-being and
determine how the labor is progressing. These assessments require skillful physical …

Post-partum depression (PPD) is a common complication of pregnancy worldwide with a
prevalence as high as 15% in some countries. Pain has been identified as a risk factor for …

Objective: Labor is a complex process and labor pain presents challenges for analgesia.
Epidural analgesia (EA) has a well-known analgesic effect and is commonly used during …

Recent research has suggested that 6 cm of cervical dilation should be the threshold for the
active labor phase, and it has confirmed that epidural analgesia (EA) is a safe method of …

Since the advent of neuraxial analgesia for labor, approaches to maintaining intrapartum
pain relief have seen significant advancement. Through pharmacologic innovations and …