Labor analgesia with paravertebral lumbar sympathetic block.

M D Suelto, D B Shaw

Author Information

M D Suelto: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35233-6810, USA.

PMID: 10204907 DOI: 10.1016/s1098-7339(99)90082-2

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Provision of labor analgesia continues to be a challenge for parturients with spine pathology or history of back surgery.
METHODS: We report on the use of paravertebral lumbar sympathetic block for first stage labor analgesia in two parturients with spine pathology.

Adult

Analgesia, Obstetrical

Autonomic Nerve Block

Female

Humans

Lumbosacral Region

Pregnancy

Pregnancy Complications

Scoliosis

Spinal Dysraphism

Case Reports Journal Article

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