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Effect of labor analgesia on labor outcome

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2010
Labor is among the most painful experiences that humans encounter. Neuraxial analgesia is the most effective means of treating this pain. In this review, we discussed the effect of neuraxial analgesia on the progress of labor when compared with parenteral opioids.
Stephen H, Halpern, Faraj W, Abdallah
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Local Labor Demand and Child Labor

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
This paper uses micro data from the Brazilian Pesquisa Nacional Por Amostra de Domicilios (PNAD) between 1981 and 2002 to ascertain the role that local labor demand proxies by male adult employment in the area of residence plays in shaping the work and schooling decisions of children aged 10-15.
Manacorda, Marco, Rosati, Furio C.
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Labor and Labor Relations

2022
In the role of “the world’s factory,” China has been exporting its manufacturing products for four decades. Globally, Chinese products have been filling up the shelves of supermarkets and shopping arcades. An adequate understanding of the changing conditions and agencies of the subjects producing these products—Chinese labor—is necessary to comprehend ...
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A Labor of Love or Labor Itself

Journal of Family Issues, 2002
Although many have examined care work within families, few have assessed caregiving among adult brothers and sisters. Based on original data, this article lends a multifaceted view of sibling care work by examining the amount and kind of help adults provide to all siblings in their family and the manner in which the social characteristics of sibling ...
Eriksen, Shelley, Gerstel, Naomi R.
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Normal Labor and the Induction and Augmentation of Labor

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1983
The management of labor is based on a sound understanding of labor's biochemistry and physiology. The interaction between prostaglandin synthesis and other mechanisms postulated to control the initiation of labor shows promise, but the definitive explanation for the initiation of labor awaits further research.
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LABOR AND MANAGEMENT OF PROLONGED LABOR

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1993
Prolonged labor is a common occurrence, but proper diagnosis is difficult, and the management is controversial. Prolonged labor can be prevented by providing the laboring woman with proper emotional support and by encouraging ambulation and position changes. The indication for and proper use of oxytocin and other measures to correct prolonged labor are
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Amniotomy in labor

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2007
pregnancies. TBARS levels reflect oxidative stress and seem to increase in certain complications of pregnancy [3]. In this study, TBARS levels increased both in maternal and umbilical cord plasma of preeclamptic patients while levels in placenta did not change.
F, Shobeiri, N, Tehranian, M, Nazari
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Laboring lesbians: Queering emotional labor

Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2019
Through an ethnographic examination of the everyday lives of lesbians working in gas stations, this article highlights the ways in which sexuality matters within the workplace. One of the unique aspects of the service economy is the position of the body at the center of the market transaction.
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Induction of labor

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1951
Abstract In a series of 455 cases of induction, 435 of which were elective, there was no maternal mortality, a maternal morbidity of 3.07 per cent, and a fetal mortality of 2 per cent, corrected to 0.2 per cent. 7 . Results Patients Per cent Mothers discharged well 455 100 Mothers discharged dead 0 0 Total babies ...
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Precipitate labor

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1957
G T, CONGER, J H, RANDALL
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