Uterine activity in the second stage of labour and the effect of epidural analgesia
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Vol. 92 (12), 1246-1250
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.1985.tb04870.x
Abstract
Uterine activity was measured during the second stage of normal labour in 20 patients with and 31 patients without epidural analgesia. There was a significantly lower uterine activity integral (UAI) in patients having epidural analgesia, and it is suggested that this may contribute to the increased rate of instrumental delivery associated with epidural analgesia.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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