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Regional analgesia is currently the most effective form of pain relief for women in labor and may include an epidural, a spinal or a combination of the two techniques. The… Click to show full abstract
Regional analgesia is currently the most effective form of pain relief for women in labor and may include an epidural, a spinal or a combination of the two techniques. The evolution of maintenance of epidural analgesia has progressed from manually delivered intermittent boluses to continuous epidural infusion (CEI), to the addition of patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) boluses for breakthrough pain and now programmed intermittent epidural bolus (PIEB). PIEB has evolved as a superior method for delivering labor analgesia due to reduced hourly local anesthetic consumption, less need for clinician intervention, and improved maternal pain and satisfaction scores.
Journal Title: Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation
Year Published: 2017
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