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Before the block: fluid preloading and testing the catheter

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Intravenous preloading was originally introduced to try to prevent or reduce hypotension caused by spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section.1 Following this, it became widely accepted that the same practice was appropriate for management of epidurals used for pain relief in labour. This occurred although such epidurals were given in smaller doses than those for caesarean section even before the introduction of low-dose epidural and combined spinal-epidural (CSE) techniques used on modern labour wards.

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  1. Department of Anaesthetics, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK

    Felicity Reynolds MBBS, MD, FRCA, FRCOG ad eundem

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Scrutton, M., Kinsella, S.M. (2000). Before the block: fluid preloading and testing the catheter. In: Reynolds, F. (eds) Regional Analgesia in Obstetrics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0435-3_13

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