Evaluation of the effects of painless labor in mothers at Najmieh Hospital Tehran

ABSTRACT

Painless labor provides conditions for mother during painful contractions of uterus and dilatations of cervix. In addition to providing smooth progression of the process, the mother remains calm and pain free. Painlessness is produced by 3 methods A By systemic drugs, B By regional methods, C By non pharmacologic methods. Some of the complications of painless labor are 1-sympathic block and hypotension, 2-motor nerve block, 3-nausea and vomiting, 4- urinary retention, 5-respiratory depression, 6-pruritis, 7- meningitis, 8-headache. This study was a cross - sectional descriptive study in which the complications of painless labor were assessed in 200 mothers during a 6 months period in Najmieh hospital. 200 mothers with painless labor were included in this study and 2 women [l%] were hospitalized, one woman was hospitalized for severe headache because of spinal anesthesia and another because of sympathic block, hypotension and headache probably because of drugs side effects. 2 women [1%] had respiratory depression. 5 women [2/5%] had nausea and vomiting, 3 of them had G.A and 2 women had regional anesthesia [1 spinal and 1 epidural]. 7 women [3.5%] had headache. 2 of them G.A and 5 women had regional methods. 3 women [1/5%] had pruritis and all of them had G.A anesthesia. 2 women [1%] had sympathic block and hypotension. One of them had G.A and another had regional anesthesia [spinal]. And in 1 case, Ketamine had been adminstered. 2 women [1%] had urinary retention. None of the patients had convulsion, meningitis and motor nerve block