Epidural analgesia in labour.

CMAJ

Discipline of Anesthesia (Bautista), Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL; Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (George), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif.

Published: May 2020

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