Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Sep 2000
The effect of the obstetrician group and epidural analgesia on the risk for cesarean delivery in nulliparous women.
The effects of regional anesthesia and of the obstetrician on the risk of cesarean delivery remain controversial. The purpose of this study was to determine whether epidural analgesia or the obstetrician group is associated with an increase in the risk for cesarean delivery in nulliparous women. ⋯ The obstetrician group is independently associated with the risk of cesarean delivery in nulliparous women, but we could not demonstrate this association with epidural analgesia. We suggest that in future studies regarding epidural analgesia and cesarean delivery, the obstetrician group should be included as a variable.