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Effect of Position on the Spread of Buffered 2% Chloroprocaine Administered Epidurally for the Second Stage of Labor
ABSTRACT: Increasing the pH of epidurally administered local anesthetics hastens their onset of action and improves the quality of neural blockade. The effect of body position on the epidural spread of alkalinized 2% chloroprocaine HCl for the second stage of labor has not been reported. We studied the epidural cephalad…