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Article: 'Mobile' epidurals more likely to preserve bladder function. (Study of 1,054 Nulliparous Women).
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- OB GYN News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Women who receive walking or "mobile" epidurals are more likely to void spontaneously during labor and are less dependent on urinary catheterization than women on traditional epidural regimens, Dr. Matt Wilson said at the annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology.
Preserved bladder function may help explain why women given walking epidurals have higher rates of spontaneous vaginal births and lower rates of instrumental delivery, compared with traditional epidural, said Dr. Wilson, who conducted the study at the University of Birmingham (England).
The effect of epiclurals on bladder function is ...