• J Midwifery Womens Health · Jan 2012

    Case Reports

    Epidural fever and its implications for mothers and neonates: taking the heat.

    • Sarit Shatken, Kaitlyn Greenough, and Christina McPherson.
    • Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
    • J Midwifery Womens Health. 2012 Jan 1;57(1):82-5.

    AbstractEpidural fever is a maternal temperature elevation seen in women who use epidural analgesia during labor. It occurs in a subset of laboring women after epidural administration and is noninfectious in origin. Epidural fever is not associated with neonatal sepsis, but it often is difficult to distinguish from chorioamnionitis, a condition that can cause neonatal sepsis. Because of this, neonates born to mothers who experience fever during labor are often evaluated for sepsis. Potential solutions to this problem include establishing better methods to distinguish between epidural fever and chorioamnionitis and making alternative methods of pain relief available to laboring women.© 2011 by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

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