The goal of this observational study is to learn more about the effect of obstetric epidural anesthesia on regional lung ventilation in healthy parturient women. The main question it aims to answer is whether the initiation or epidural analgesia improves or not regional lung ventilation in healthy women at term during labor. Participants will be subject to measurements of pulmonary impedance by electric impedance tomography before and after the start of epidural analgesia. No change will be applied to clinical care as a result of this measurement.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
Erasmus University Hospital
Brussels, Anderlecht, Belgium
Regional lung ventilation (ROI 1-4)
Assess regional ventilation as measured by electric impedance in each of the 4 Regions Of Interest (from anterior to posterior) in which the lung is divided, before and after epidural analgesia
Time frame: "before" measurements will be taken just before applying lumbar epidural analgesia, and "after" measurements will be taken 5 minutes and ten minutes after starting lumbar epidural analgesia. Measurements take 10 minutes of continuous registration
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