Belfrage P, BorГ©us LO, Hartvig P, Irestedt L, Raabe N.remifentanil as alternative to regional analgesia. Schnabel A, Hahn N, Muellenbach R, Frambach T, Hoenig A, Roewer N, Kranke P.Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia for labour: a survey of UK practice. Saravanakumar K, Garstang JS, Hasan K.Peripartum period and hemophilia carriers. Bonnet A, Chevalier Y, Wallon G, Huissoud C, Aubrun F.Received: Accepted: SeptemPrepublished online: OctoPublished: MaShow citation Keywords: remifentanil, labour analgesia, patient-controlled analgesia, systemic opioid analgesia, meta-analysis Conclusion: The meta-analysis presented here confirms that remifentanil for labour analgesia is effective but questions remain which can only be answered by further randomized trials. In the systematic review, we describe possible modes of application, dosage and side-effects for mother, fetus/ newborn. From a comparison of the CIs of summary estimates with a cut-off decrease of VAS 2, for the fixed model, there was a statistically significantly greater decrease in VAS than the cut-off. Results: The combined data from the meta-analysis showed a statistically significant decrease in VAS in the remifentanil group. The analysis was computed using the Comprehensive meta-analysis version 2.2.064. This was based on the fixed model and described by differences in the VAS between t=0 and t=1 hour after remifentanil administration using the 95% confidence interval (CI). 44 identified articles were included in the review and 15 published randomised controlled studies were incorporated into the meta-analysis. Methods: Search of the US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (SCOPUS database (and Web of Science database (using the key words 'labour' and 'remifentanil'. The aim of this meta-analysis is to evaluate recently published studies (up to December 2014) on the analgesic efficacy of remifentanil during labour (as a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) decrease in the first hour by 2 or more). Since the first demonstration of the safety of remifentanil in obstetric analgesia in 1996, this has been repeatedly confirmed for both mother and newborn.

Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech RepublicД«ackground and Aims: Although epidural analgesia is still regarded as the gold standard for labour analgesia due to its efficacy, in cases of contraindication, systemic remifentanil is an alternative. Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia Section of the Czech Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Czech Republic cДepartment of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno and University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic dДepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno and University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic e Systematic review of the recent literature Petr Stourac a,b, Martina Kosinova c, Hana Harazim c, Martin Huser d, Petr Janku d, Simona Littnerova e, Jiri Jarkovsky e aДepartment of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno and University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic b Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub.

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