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Analgesia during Labor and Vaginal Birth among Women with Severe Maternal Morbidity: Secondary Analysis from the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health.

Marcio A SouzaJose P S GuidaJosé Guilherme CecattiJoão P SouzaAhmet M GulmezogluAna P BetranMaria R TorloniJoshua P VogelMaria Laura Costa do Nascimento
Published in: BioMed research international (2019)
The overall use of analgesia for vaginal delivery is low but women with SMM are more likely to receive analgesia during labor. Social conditions are closely linked with the likelihood of having analgesia during delivery and such a procedure is not associated with increased adverse maternal outcomes. Expanding the availability of analgesia in different levels of care should be a concern worldwide.
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