Experience of Pearl Hospital obstetricians with epidural block analgesia

dc.contributor.author	De Villiers V.P.
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-18T14:57:33Z
dc.date.available	2011-03-18T14:57:33Z
dc.date.issued	1985
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/7492
dc.description.abstract	The experience of obstetricians at Paarl Hospital with 2,251 epidural blocks for pain relief in labour is recorded. The incidence of 10.93% among the 20,590 mothers delivered can only be justified if adequate after-care is possible. The one maternal death recorded was avoidable and related to the performance of a procedure when adequate supervision was impossible. An epidural block should be performed only when such supervision is available for a minimum of 30 minutes.
dc.subject	bupivacaine
dc.subject	analgesia
dc.subject	central nervous system
dc.subject	epidural anesthesia
dc.subject	fatality
dc.subject	human
dc.subject	labor
dc.subject	major clinical study
dc.subject	maternal mortality
dc.subject	nervous system
dc.subject	pregnancy
dc.subject	priority journal
dc.subject	therapy
dc.subject	article
dc.subject	female
dc.subject	nerve block
dc.subject	obstetric anesthesia
dc.subject	South Africa
dc.subject	Anesthesia, Epidural
dc.subject	Anesthesia, Obstetrical
dc.subject	English Abstract
dc.subject	Female
dc.subject	Human
dc.subject	Nerve Block
dc.subject	Pregnancy
dc.subject	South Africa
dc.title	Experience of Pearl Hospital obstetricians with epidural block analgesia