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Combined Spinal-Epidural Analgesia for Labour

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Labour pain is effectively relieved by neuraxial analgesic techniques. Initiation of labour analgesia is either done by conventional epidural analgesia or by combined spinal epidural analgesia (CSE)

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  1. University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Marc Van de Velde

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Women’s Wellness and Research Centre, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

    Roshan Fernando

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Pervez Sultan

  3. Department of Anaesthesia, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK

    Sioned Phillips

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Van de Velde, M. (2022). Combined Spinal-Epidural Analgesia for Labour. In: Fernando, R., Sultan, P., Phillips, S. (eds) Quick Hits in Obstetric Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72487-0_2

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