Parenteral opioids have been used in labour analgesia for many years, but the ideal opioid
in this setting is yet to be found. We review the properties of currently used opioids, their …

Objectives: To compare the analgesic profile of remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia
(RPCA) and combined spinal-epidural analgesia technique (CSEA) in multiparous women …

Background Intravenous labor analgesia is recommended as an alternative for parturients
who have contraindications to epidural analgesia. There are several opioid analgesics and …

BACKGROUND: Remifentanil may be used by laboring women for analgesia, despite
controversy because of potential apneas. We evaluated candidate variables as early …

Background Intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) has been routinely
available for labouring women in our unit since 2004, the regimen using a 40 µg bolus …

You are attending a call for a patient who has requested a labour epidural. As you enter the
birthing room you see a distressed woman breathing heavily on the nitrous oxide mouth …

Background During labour, remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia is used as an
alternative to neuraxial analgesia. Remifentanil is associated with hypoventilation and …

Conclusion Remifentanil PCA is arguably the second best choice as a method of pain relief
in labour after neuraxial block. Most of the pharmacological techniques of labour analgesia …

How wonderful to be Queen Victoria as she chose an ala carte labor analgesia option from
her physician, Dr. John Snow. Chloroform was not routinely available for labor analgesia in …

Introduction Currently, a wide variety of nonpharmacologic interventions and
pharmacological agents are used to alleviate maternal pain in labour. Non-pharmacological …