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Epidural analgesia in the obese obstetric patient: a retrospective and comparative study with non-obese patients at a tertiary hospital

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Obesity is becoming a frequent condition among obstetric patients. A high body mass index (BMI) has been closely related to a higher difficulty to perform the neuraxial technique and to the failure of epidural analgesia. Our study is aimed at analyzing obese obstetric pati...

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Autores principales: González-Tascón, Claudia Cuesta, Díaz, Elena Gredilla, García, Itsaso Losantos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9373670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33845099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjane.2021.02.054