Open AccessIncidence of cesarean section and analysis of risk factors for failed conversion of labor epidural to surgical anesthesia: A prospective, observational study in a tertiary care center
Author(s) -
Samina Ismail,
Shakaib Chugtai,
Alia Hussain
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.169085
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , observational study , anesthesia , demographics , tertiary care , prospective cohort study , surgery , physics , demography , pathology , sociology , optics
This study aimed to analyze the effect of labor epidural (LE) on the incidence of cesarean section (CS) and assess the risk factors involved in failed conversion of LE to surgical anesthesia for CS.