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Establishment of Labor Epidural Analgesia Service and its Assessment: An Experience in a Hospital of a Middle-Income Country

Even though the idea of painless birth is more than 100 years old, it is still underrepresented in some parts of the world despite progress in science, education, anesthesia, spinal and epidural needles, development of catheters, new drugs, and infusion pumps. Maternal care should basically be the s...

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