Year: 1989
Type: article
Abstract: Perineal pain during the course of routine epidural analgesia with bupivacaine was treated with a 10-ml top-up of either bupivacaine 25 mg, fentanyl 100 micrograms or fentanyl 100 micrograms plus bupivacaine 10 mg, in 46 women in the first stage of labour. Only fentanyl plus bupivacaine produced consistently reliable analgesia which was quicker in onset and longer in duration (140, SD 26 minutes) than either fentanyl (114, SD 26 minutes) or bupivacaine (99, SD 44 minutes) alone. Side effects, itching and drowsiness, which were not troublesome, were more frequent in the groups given fentanyl.
Source: Anaesthesia
Authors: F. Reynolds, G. O'Sullivan
Institution: St Thomas' Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2005328481