Pain management during labor.
Recent studies investigating the management of analgesia in childbirth have demonstrated that pain relief can be started early in labor with no negative consequences. Also of particular importance are studies showing that automated delivery of large boluses of diluted local anesthetic with opioids might be more effective than continuous background infusion of these drugs in patient-controlled epidural analgesia.
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington Medical Center 1959 NE Pacific Street, Suite BB 1415B, Seattle, WA 98195-6540 USA.
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