Caspase-1 and epidural-related maternal fever

Labor epidural analgesia and maternal fever.

Women in labor who receive epidural analgesia are more likely to experience hyperthermia and overt clinical fever. The gradual development of modest hyperthermia observed in laboring women with epidural analgesia is not seen in those electing other forms of analgesia or unmedicated labor. Clinical fever is also far more likely in women laboring with epidural analgesia. It is possible that the o...

Epidural fever?

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2002 Practising Midwife 5(8):21. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. Here’s a clinical mystery... On one postnatal ward in a fairly average hospital at the beginning of this year, almost a third of the women were b...

Comparison of maternal and neonatal characteristics of neonates with dehydration fever and healthy infants

Background: dehydration fever is a common problem during the first week of life. This study aimed to compare the characteristics of neonates with fever due to dehydration and healthy infants. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 324 neonates including 120 neonates with normal body temperature and 204 neonates with fever due to dehydration (hyperthermia) referred to Ghaem Hospit...

A randomized trial of the effects of antibiotic prophylaxis on epidural-related fever in labor.

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that the development of maternal fever during epidural analgesia could be due to intrapartum infection. We investigated whether antibiotic prophylaxis before epidural placement decreases the rate of epidural-related fever. METHODS In this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 400 healthy nulliparous women requesting epidural analgesia were randomly assigned ...

CASP 1 ( caspase 1 , apoptosis - related cysteine peptidase ( interleukin 1 , beta , convertase ) )