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Anaesthesia is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists and is international in scope and comprehensive in coverage. It publishes original, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of general and regional anaesthesia, intensive care and pain therapy, including research on equipment. Here you can find all our podcasts which go deeper into the issues raised by important papers on topics of relevance to all clinically practicing professionals.
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Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Neuraxial labour analgesia is a safe and effective method of pain relief. Following initiation of analgesia with epidural or combined spinal-epidural, this can be maintained with continuous epidural infusion, manual intermittent boluses, patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA), programmed intermittent epidural bolus (PIEB) or a combination of these.
This new RCT finds that a PCEA high-volume bolus without a background infusion is not inferior to PIEB for maintenance of epidural labour analgesia and superior regarding local anaesthetic consumption. The results of the study support the use of high-volume bolus techniques, whether as part of PIEB or PCEA, for the maintenance of epidural labour analgesia. The PIEB techniques provide more consistent pain control (less variability), whereas PCEA-only may give women more control over their analgesia.
For this podcast, Dr Louise Savic discussed the methods and resultant implications with the authors.
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