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ReviewAnaesthesiology intensive therapy2024

Safety and complications of labour epidural analgesia in obese parturients: worrying is not worth the weight!

Medhavi Saxena, Ankur Sharma, Shilpa Goyal, Nikhil Kothari

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Review in Anaesthesiology intensive therapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Medhavi SaxenaAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.
Ankur SharmaAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.
Shilpa GoyalAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.
Nikhil KothariAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The physiological transformations accompanying pregnancy, compounded by the implications of obesity, pose intricate challenges for anaesthesiologists attending to obese parturients. Obesity makes it harder to successfully provide epidural analgesia to a parturient. This narrative review explains the most recent data on the safety and complications of providing labour epidural analgesia in obese expectant mothers. We have emphasised the evidence-based approaches that are the most effective for obese pregnant mothers receiving labour epidural analgesia.

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Analgesia, EpiduralAnalgesia, ObstetricalObesityFemaleHumansLabor, ObstetricPregnancyPregnancy Complicationsanalgesiaepidurallaborobesitypregnancy

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PMID38741440
PMCPMC11022643

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