Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5582942 Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 2017 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
Obesity is associated with increasing technical difficulty and failure of neuraxial analgesia for labor. Practitioners should consider allotting extra time for obese parturients in order to manage potential problems.
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Increasing body mass index predicts increasing difficulty, failure rate, and time to discovery of failure of epidural anesthesia in laboring patients
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