Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.

Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.

Child birth is associated with severely painful experience for the parturient, and often exceeds one’s expectations. Even though, severe pain is non life-threatening condition in healthy parturient women, it may lead to undesired neuropsychological consequences. When no analgesia was used, postnatal...

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Main Authors: Ho, SE, Sumathi U, Ismail MS, Choy, YC, Ahmad Zailani Hatta, Liu, CY
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2013
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spelling ukm-70382016-12-14T06:42:55Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7038/ Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour. Ho, SE Sumathi U, Ismail MS, Choy, YC Ahmad Zailani Hatta, Liu, CY Child birth is associated with severely painful experience for the parturient, and often exceeds one’s expectations. Even though, severe pain is non life-threatening condition in healthy parturient women, it may lead to undesired neuropsychological consequences. When no analgesia was used, postnatal depression may be more common, and this labour pain leads to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder. Epidural analgesia is now considered gold standard for effective pain relief during labour. We here report a case of a 37-year-old G1 P0 patient at term gestation who successfully used epidural analgesia for labour pain management. Penerbit UKM 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7038/1/5.MS168-_Proof_%2833-36%29.pdf Ho, SE and Sumathi U, and Ismail MS, and Choy, YC and Ahmad Zailani Hatta, and Liu, CY (2013) Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour. Medicine & Health, 8 (1). pp. 33-36. ISSN 1823-2140 http://www.medicineandhealthukm.com
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description Child birth is associated with severely painful experience for the parturient, and often exceeds one’s expectations. Even though, severe pain is non life-threatening condition in healthy parturient women, it may lead to undesired neuropsychological consequences. When no analgesia was used, postnatal depression may be more common, and this labour pain leads to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder. Epidural analgesia is now considered gold standard for effective pain relief during labour. We here report a case of a 37-year-old G1 P0 patient at term gestation who successfully used epidural analgesia for labour pain management.
format Article
author Ho, SE
Sumathi U,
Ismail MS,
Choy, YC
Ahmad Zailani Hatta,
Liu, CY
spellingShingle Ho, SE
Sumathi U,
Ismail MS,
Choy, YC
Ahmad Zailani Hatta,
Liu, CY
Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.
author_facet Ho, SE
Sumathi U,
Ismail MS,
Choy, YC
Ahmad Zailani Hatta,
Liu, CY
author_sort Ho, SE
title Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.
title_short Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.
title_full Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.
title_fullStr Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.
title_full_unstemmed Case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.
title_sort case study on the effect of epidural analgesia on pain management during labour.
publisher Penerbit UKM
publishDate 2013
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7038/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7038/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7038/1/5.MS168-_Proof_%2833-36%29.pdf
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