Purpose: To review the effects of maternal anesthesia and analgesia on the fetus and
newborn. Methods: An on-line computerized search of Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane …

This report describes the background and process for a rigorous project to improve
understanding of labor pain and its management, and summarizes the main results and their …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the cost of 'the cascade'of obstetric interventions introduced during
labour for low risk women. DESIGN: A cost formula derived from population data. SETTING …

In this descriptive study, 100 low‐risk participants who delivered vaginally were recruited
from the postpartum unit of a major hospital in the city of Amman. Three instruments, the …

This study investigated the reasons that might lead women to choose or not choose epidural
analgesia as a strategy for the management of pain in childbirth. In our sample 55% of 114 …

Abstract “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This maxim
underscores the importance of historical awareness in medicine, particularly for …

One of the most severe pains experienced by a woman is that of childbirth. Providing
analgesia for labor has always been a challenge more so because of the myths and …

A group of family physicians, obstetricians, midwives, obstetric anesthesiologists, and
childbirth educators attended an evidence-based symposium in 2001 on the nature and …

AWARENESS OF WOMEN REGARDING ANALGESIA DURING LABOUR Page 1 J Ayub Med
Coll Abbottabad 2010;22(1) http://www.ayubmed.edu.pk/JAMC/PAST/22-1/Barakzai.pdf 73 …

Background Whether epidural analgesia for labor prolongs the active-first and second labor
stages and increases the risk of vacuum-assisted delivery is a controversial topic. Our study …