RT Book, Section A1 Bauchat, Jeanette A1 Wong, Cynthia A. A2 Santos, Alan C. A2 Epstein, Jonathan N. A2 Chaudhuri, Kallol SR Print(0) ID 1108522684 T1 Neuraxial Labor Analgesia and Effect on Labor T2 Obstetric Anesthesia YR 2015 FD 2015 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071786133 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1108522684 RD 2024/03/29 AB The ideal labor analgesia should provide satisfactory maternal pain relief but not interfere with labor progression or outcome while minimizing adverse side effects to the mother and fetus. Although no single analgesia technique is ideal for all parturients, neuraxial analgesia (epidural, spinal, or combined spinal-epidural) is arguably the analgesic technique closest to the ideal for most women.