Labor analgesia with paravertebral lumbar sympathetic block.
OBJECTIVE
Provision of labor analgesia continues to be a challenge for parturients with spine pathology or history of back surgery.


METHODS
We report on the use of paravertebral lumbar sympathetic block for first stage labor analgesia in two parturients with spine pathology.
Suelto
M D
MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35233-6810, USA.
Shaw
D B
DB
D000328:Adult; D016362:Analgesia, Obstetrical / Q000379:methods*; D001340:Autonomic Nerve Block / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D012600:Scoliosis; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism