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Prolonged intravenous remifentanil infusion for labor analgesia
Medge D Owen1, Michael J Poss, Laura S Dean
1Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA. mowen@wfubmc.edu
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|March 28, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
A 34-h remifentanil infusion was administered for labor analgesia in a patient with thrombocytopenia and renal insufficiency. Compared with other opioids, remifentanil may produce fewer cumulative effects during prolonged infusion because of its unique metabolism.