Neurobehavioral Responses and Drug Concentrations in Newborns after Maternal Epidural Anesthesia with Bupivacaine

摘要: The neurobehavioral status of 20 newborn infants was evaluated after two to four hours life following maternal epidural anesthesia with bupivacaine for labor and vaginal delivery. All were normal products uncomplicated full-term gestations. infants, whose mothers had received continuous lumbar bupivacaine, demonstrated no measurable difference from control did not have the decrease in muscle tone strength observed lidocaine or mepivacaine a previous study.