ArticleCureus2024
Establishment of Labor Epidural Analgesia Service and its Assessment: An Experience in a Hospital of a Middle-Income Country.
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Abstract
objectivesEven though the idea of painless birth is more than 100 years old, it is still underrepresented in some parts of the world despite progress in science, education, anesthesia, spinal and epidural needles, development of catheters, new drugs, and infusion pumps. Maternal care should basically be the safety of the patient (in this case two patients) and also provide all kinds of protection in the form of a multidisciplinary team with an anesthesiologist, especially when it comes to pain therapy and anesthesia for women in labor. In this direction, our hospital departments with low or moderate volume of annual births made the decision to educate ourselves for painless childbirth and contribute more to the care of women in labor. The enthusiasm and dedication of our clinical team prevailed and today we have a high standard of labor epidural service. The aim of this study was to evaluate the establishment of the epidural labor service by comparing the effects of epidural analgesia on labor pain and the course of labor. The secondary objectives were to compare satisfaction with epidural analgesia and the impact of epidural analgesia on the delivery mode. MATERIAL AND
methodsThis was a prospective observational hospital-based study conducted on 100 patients after the establishment of epidural service. Parturients who were signed to receive epidural analgesia formed Group A and parturients who did not request epidural analgesia formed Group B. All parturients are induced in the delivery room with a Bishop score of 5 or higher.
resultsPain intensity measured through the visual analog scale of pain (VAS score) was significantly lower in Group A (n
conclusionEstablishing a new hospital procedure such as an epidural painless service for childbirth in low or moderate-volume settings of annual births is very challenging. By evaluating epidural labor services in our hospital, we created the best environment for continuous improvement and long-term efficacy and safety of our analgesic techniques aimed at providing excellent care to mothers and their babies.
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