Observational Study Using Ultrasound to Assess Midline Labor Epidural Analgesia Placement and Analgesic Efficacy.
Carolyn F WeinigerBenjamin CobbRachel R WangBrendan CarvalhoPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2017)
In our laboring population, the hypothesis that nonmidline epidural insertion is associated with less-effective labor analgesia was not confirmed in this study cohort. We found minimal differences in distances between the US midline to epidural catheter insertion point and US midline to patient-identified midline.