Epidural analgesia during labor and its optimal initiation time-points: A real-world study on 400 Chinese nulliparas.

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Abstract

Recent research has suggested that 6 cm of cervical dilation should be the threshold for the active labor phase, and it has confirmed that epidural analgesia (EA) is a safe method of pain relief during labor. However, the evidence provided for these findings comes mainly from randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs), which suffer from the limitation of real-world generalizability.To test the generalizability of the conclusions from these previous RCTs, we conducted a prospective cohort, real-world study (RWS) on 400 Chinese term nulliparas. A total of 200 of the participants (the EA group) received EA upon request. The participants in the EA group were further subdivided as follows according to their cervical dilation when the EA administration was initiated (CDE): [EA

SUBMITTER: Zha Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7939169 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature