Labor analgesia with intradermal sterile water block in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy

Abstract

Epidural analgesia is the gold standard for providing labor analgesia, but an obstetric anesthesiologist should be well versed with many other non-pharmacological modalities of pain management. The present case highlights the importance of non-pharmacological methods of labor analgesia that might be the only options available in certain subset of patients to provide adequate labor analgesia.

Keywords

• Dilated cardiomyopathy
• intradermal sterile water block
• labor analgesia