Regional anesthesia is a popular form of pain relief for the management of labor and delivery. Thrombocytopenia is considered a relative contraindication to the administration of regional anesthesia.… (More)
BACKGROUND
The influence of the labor epidural local anesthetic (LA) on mode of delivery has not been adequately studied. In this study, we sought to determine if there is a difference in mode of… (More)
The characteristics of eye movements elicited by auditory stimuli, the audio-ocular response (AOR), differ from those made in response to visual stimuli. Their latencies are longer, their accuracies… (More)
A survey of a college age population revealed that 8% could produce voluntary nystagmus. Seventy-nine per cent of this sample had relatives who could also produce it. A systematic investigation of… (More)
BACKGROUND
Approximately 15% of women still have pain after placement of an epidural catheter and administration of local anesthetic for labor analgesia. Two techniques frequently used to treat this… (More)
We show that the Nambu–Goto string, and its higher dimensional generalizations, can be quantized, in the sense of an effective theory, in any dimension of the target space. The crucial point is to… (More)
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The purpose of our study was to determine the lowest concentration of ropivacaine that offers pain relief for the initiation of labor epidural analgesia. Women in active labor were… (More)
American journal of optometry and physiological…
1981
A patient who had ingested quinine as a suicide gesture was followed from 14.5 hr to 6 months with electrodiagnostic tests. The electroretinogram revealed early increased a-wave and decreased b-wave… (More)