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- Title
Establishing an epidural service for labour analgesia in a variable resource environment.
- Authors
Kintu, Andrew; MacCormick, Hilary; George, Ronald B.
- Abstract
The health of women correlates strongly with the social and economic well-being of a community. However, pain during childbirth is undertreated in variable resource environments Epidurals provide safe and efficient provision of anesthesia for unplanned or emergent cesarean delivery. This article will focus primarily on establishing an epidural service to provide labour analgesia and anesthesia for nonscheduled cesarean delivery. The development of a labour epidural service should encompass patients' safety as its key tenant. Developing a high quality epidural service requires a well-trained, cooperative multidisciplinary team, an adequately equipped unit, and dedicated leadership whose role is to ensure the service maintains high standards. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the service will create the best environment for continued improvements and longevity of a means to strive towards provision of excellent care for parturients and their babies.
- Subjects
CESAREAN section; LABOR (Obstetrics); MATERNAL health services; MEDICAL protocols; PATIENT education; PATIENT safety; WOMEN'S health; EPIDURAL analgesia; OBSTETRICAL analgesia
- Publication
Update in Anaesthesia, 2019, Vol 34, p35
- ISSN
1353-4882
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/WFSA-D-18-00022