The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal
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Niger Postgrad Med J · Sep 2013
Clinical correlates of women requesting labour epidural analgesia in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria.
To evaluate the clinical correlates of women who received pain relief in labour with lumbar epidural analgesia and also investigate the labour outcome. ⋯ This study suggests that labour epidural analgesia is not associated with increased caesarean section and adverse foetal outcome. This is of value in increasing the acceptance of this service by pregnant women in Nigeria.