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The management of labour using continuous lumbar epidural analgesia with 0.2% ropivacaine in a parturient with traumatic brain injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2005

S.-H. Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Y.-H. Sung
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
P.-J. Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Y.-C. Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Y.-C. Tsai
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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© 2005 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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