Establishing maternal love.
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J van den Heever
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Self-administered intravenous analgesia during labour. A comparison between pentazocine and pethidine.
Pentazocine or pethidine was administered to healthy parturients up to the time of delivery using a self-demand (self-administration on demand) intravenous apparatus, the Cardiff Palliator. Good analgesia was obtained with both drugs. The patients receiving pethidine exhibited side-effects (nausea, vomiting and drowsiness), whereas there were no side-effects among those receiving pentazocine. Apgar and neurobehavioural scores of the babies of mothers in both groups were the same and did not differ from those of a third group of babies, the mothers of whom had received 4-hourly intramuscular pethidine on demand according to the usual hospital routine. The self-administration technique proved a safe and effective means of providing analgesia during labour and delivery, with pentazocine having a decided advantage over pethidine because of its lack of side-effects.
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