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Obstetrical analgesia and anesthesia

Canada

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Pain Management During Labour [2007]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for pain relief in labour
  • Topically applied anaesthetics for treating perineal pain after childbirth
  • Spinal versus epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
  • Relaxation techniques for pain management in labour
  • Regional versus general anaesthesia for caesarean section
  • Prophylactic intravenous preloading for regional analgesia in labour
  • Intracutaneous or subcutaneous sterile water injection compared with blinded controls for pain management in labour
  • Inhaled analgesia for pain management in labour
  • Epidural versus non-epidural analgesia for pain relief in labour
  • Complementary and alternative therapies for pain management in labour
  • Combined spinal-epidural versus epidural analgesia in labour
  • Biofeedback for pain management during labour

South Africa

• Maternal Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
  • Pain relief in labour [2006]

United Kingdom

• Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
  • OAA / AAGBI Guidelines for Obstetric Anaesthetic Services. Revised Edition 2005 [2005]

United States of America

• American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • Statement on pain relief during labor [2010]
  • Optimal goals for anesthesia care in obstetrics [2010]
  • Guidelines for neuraxial anesthesia in obstetrics [2010]
  • Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia [2006]
  • Nitrous Oxide for Labor Analgesia

WHO

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Regional versus general anaesthesia for caesarean section [2007]
  • Spinal versus epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section [2006]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • The Nature and Management of Labor Pain: Part II. Pharmacologic Pain Relief [2003]
  • The Nature and Management of Labor Pain: Part I. Nonpharmacologic Pain Relief [2003]

• Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Simulation in Obstetric Anesthesia [2012]
  • A Review of the Impact of Phenylephrine Administration on Maternal Hemodynamics and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women Undergoing Cesarean Delivery Under Spinal Anesthesia [2012]
  • A Comparison Between Remifentanil and Meperidine for Labor Analgesia: A Systematic Review [2012]
  • The Unanticipated Difficult Intubation in Obstetrics [2011]
  • Informed Consent in Obstetric Anesthesia [2011]
  • Continuous Spinal Anesthesia and Analgesia in Obstetrics [2011]
  • What's New in Obstetric Anesthesia in 2009? An Update on Maternal Patient Safety [2010]
  • Ropivacaine Versus Bupivacaine for Epidural Labor Analgesia [2010]
  • Labor Epidural Analgesia and Maternal Fever [2010]
  • Systemic Remifentanil for Labor Analgesia [2009]
  • Serotonin Receptor Antagonists for the Prevention and Treatment of Pruritus, Nausea, and Vomiting in Women Undergoing Cesarean Delivery with Intrathecal Morphine: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2009]
  • Patient-Controlled Epidural Analgesia for Labor [2009]
  • Neuraxial Techniques in Obstetric and Non-Obstetric Patients with Common Bleeding Diatheses [2009]
  • Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery [2009]
  • Clinical Implications of Neuraxial Anesthesia in the Parturient with Scoliosis [2009]
  • Awareness During Anesthesia: Risk Factors, Causes and Sequelae: A Review of Reported Cases in the Literature [2009]
  • A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials That Evaluate Strategies to Avoid Epidural Vein Cannulation During Obstetric Epidural Catheter Placement [2009]

• Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia
  • Pregnancy and non-valvular heart disease - Anesthetic considerations [2010]

• Australian Prescriber
  • Does pethidine still have a place in the management of labour pain? [2004]

• BMC Medicine
  • More in hope than expectation: Women's experience and expectations of pain relief in labour: A review [2008]

• Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy
  • Transcutaneous electrical stimulation for pain relief during labor: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]

• British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Metoclopramide for nausea and vomiting prophylaxis during and after Caesarean delivery: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2012]
  • Efficacy of low-dose bupivacaine in spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean delivery: systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]
  • Anaesthetic considerations for non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy [2011]
  • Anaesthesia chapter from Saving Mothers' Lives; reviewing maternal deaths to make pregnancy safer [2008]
  • Obstetric epidurals and chronic adhesive arachnoiditis [2004]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Treating pain during pregnancy [2010]

• Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
  • Fetal and maternal analgesia/anesthesia for fetal procedures [2012]

• Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia
  • Remifentanil as analgesia for labor [2010]
  • Applications of Magnesium Sulfate in Obstetrics and Anesthesia [2010]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Dispelling the myths of epidural pain relief in childbirth [2006]

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