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Article: More women are receiving pain relief during labor.
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- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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More women are taking advantage of the increasingly varied and sophisticated pain relief options during childbirth, according to a Sept 19, 2005, news release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Researchers examined survey responses from 378 hospitals that provided obstetric services in 2001, grouping the hospitals according to the number of births per year (ie, 1,500 or more, 500 to 1,499, and fewer than 500).
The results showed that only 6% to 10% of mothers went without analgesia during Labor in 2001, compared to 11% to 33% of mothers in 1992. Regional analgesia, including epidural, spinal or combined epidural-spinal techniques, accounted for 76% ...