Obstetric anesthesia has evolved over the course of its history to encompass comprehensive
aspects of maternal care, ranging from cesarean delivery anesthesia and labor analgesia to …

Mothers given an epidural rather than parenteral opioid labor analgesia report less pain and
are more satisfied with their pain relief. Analgesic method does not affect fetal oxygenation …

Women in labor who receive epidural analgesia are more likely to experience hyperthermia
and overt clinical fever. The gradual development of modest hyperthermia observed in …

Purpose: To review the effects of maternal anesthesia and analgesia on the fetus and
newborn. Methods: An on-line computerized search of Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane …

Objective: Recent studies indicate that clinical chorioamnionitis is a heterogeneous
condition and only approximately one-half of the patients have bacteria in the amniotic …

Objective: The diagnosis of clinical chorioamnionitis is based on a combination of signs
[fever, maternal or fetal tachycardia, foul-smelling amniotic fluid (AF), uterine tenderness and …

Intrapartum fever is associated with excessive maternal interventions as well as higher
neonatal morbidity. Epidural-related maternal fever (ERMF) contributes to the development …

Epidural-related maternal fever affects 15% to 25% of patients who receive a labor epidural.
Two meta-analyses demonstrated that epidural-related maternal fever is a clinical …

Background Epidural analgesia is associated with intrapartum hyperthermia, and
chorioamnionitis is associated with neonatal brain injury. However, it is not known if epidural …

Background: While epidural analgesia (EA) is associated with maternal fever during labor,
the impact on the risk for maternal and/or neonatal sepsis is unknown. Objectives: The aim …