Bmc Pregnancy Childb
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Bmc Pregnancy Childb · Mar 2020
Meta AnalysisRemifentanil patient-controlled versus epidural analgesia on intrapartum maternal fever: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (RPCA) is an alternative for epidural analgesia (EA) in labor pain relief. However, it remains unknown whether RPCA is superior to EA in decreasing the risk of intrapartum maternal fever during labor. ⋯ There is no solid evidence to illustrate that the incidence of intrapartum maternal fever is lower in patients receiving intravenous RPCA than in patients receiving EA.