40 Cases Report of the Persistent Epidural Anesthesia Applied to Relieve Labor Pain
- VernacularTitle:持续硬膜外阻滞应用于分娩镇痛40例报告
- Author:
Liuyan WANG
;
Hongting WU
;
Weijiang YI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Epidural anesthesia;
Obstetrics;
Labor
- From:
Journal of Chinese Physician
2001;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the pain-relieving effectiveness of persistent epidural anesthesia and its influence on mothers and infants.Methods 40 pregnant women without any obstetric complications and anesthetic contraindications were selected as the observation group,and persistent epidural anesthesia were applied when the cervicis opened to be larger than 3cm.40 cases with similar obstetric conditions were regarded as the control group without using any anesthesia.We compared the degree of labor pain,duration,delivery mode,the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage,intrauterine distress,neonatal asphyxia between the two groups.Results There were significantly difference in the rate of oxytocin utilization,vaginal delivery and the time of stageⅡ labor.There were no obvious difference in the active phase of labor course,the incidence of cesarean birth,intrauterine distress,neonatal asphyxia and postpartum hemorrhage between the two groups.Conclusions The results indicate that epidural anesthesia could affect the length of stageⅡ labor time and have merits of simple,obvious analgetic effect,but inflecencing delivery mode,therefore it to be improve.
