Does the hospital have an anesthesiologist who specializes in providing analgesia and anesthesia to women in labor?
Fentanyl patches are formulated to provide analgesia lasting up to 72 hours.
This means that an epidural can provide analgesia while affecting muscle strength to a lesser extent.
The purpose of the non-controlled drugs in combination is often twofold: 1) To provide increased analgesia via drug synergy.
Intravenous midazolam and pethidine were used to provide sedation and analgesia throughout the procedure.
To provide increased analgesia via drug synergy.
Although opioids are strong analgesics, they do not provide complete analgesia regardless of whether the pain is acute or chronic in origin.
It dissolves quickly and is absorbed through the sublingual mucosa to provide rapid analgesia.
The indwelling epidural catheter gives the ability to provide long lasting analgesia and to titrate the dose given to the desired effect.
Alternatively, smaller doses can provide analgesia, e.g. in the postoperative period.