Epidural Analgesia for Labour and Delivery: Fentanyl or Sufentanil

• Main Authors: Cohen, S., Amar, D., Pantuck, C. B., Pantuck, E. J., Goodman, E.J., Leung, Denis H. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1996
• Subjects: Econometrics; Medicine and Health Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/370
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The highly lipid soluble opioids, fentanyl and sufentanil, are used in combination with local anaesthetics with/ without epinephrine to provide epidural analgesia during labour and delivery. Our aim was to determine whether either opioid was superior when used with low dose local anaesthetic. Method...