Modern neuraxial labor analgesia: options for initiation, maintenance and drug selection

摘要

Most authors would agree that central neuraxial analgesia is the bestform to manage labor pain. When neuraxial analgesia is administered tothe parturient in labor, different management choices must be made by theanesthetist: how will we initiate analgesia, how will analgesia be main-tained, which local anesthetic will we use for neuraxial analgesia andwhich adjuvant drugs will we combine? The present manuscript tries to re-view the literature to answer these questions.