Objectives. Determine the level of awareness and acceptability of pregnant women to epidural labor analgesia anesthesiologist intervention in the Maternal Perinatal Specialized Institute. Materials and methods. This is a Observational, prospective, longitudinal study in the service of psycho-prophylaxis of the Maternal Perinatal Specialized Institute, conducted at 205 pregnant women. Results. The level of knowledge of pregnant women on epidural labor analgesia through of anesthesiologist intervention in the Maternal Perinatal Specialized Institute is 55,9%, its level of acceptance is 42,9%, the grounds (factors) that decrease the acceptance of labor analgesia are: Fear of being damaged your health (67,8%) and fear of harming your baby (32,2%). Finally, the percentage of pregnant women satisfied with the information you received is 69,3%, but only admit you would like to receive epidural ...

Objectives. Determine the level of awareness and acceptability of pregnant women to epidural labor analgesia anesthesiologist intervention in the Maternal Perinatal Specialized Institute. Materials and methods. This is a Observational, prospective, longitudinal study in the service of psycho-prophylaxis of the Maternal Perinatal Specialized Institute, conducted at 205 pregnant women. Results. The level of knowledge of pregnant women on epidural labor analgesia through of anesthesiologist intervention in the Maternal Perinatal Specialized Institute is 55,9%, its level of acceptance is 42,9%, the grounds (factors) that decrease the acceptance of labor analgesia are: Fear of being damaged your health (67,8%) and fear of harming your baby (32,2%). Finally, the percentage of pregnant women satisfied with the information you received is 69,3%, but only admit you would like to receive epidural ...

Objective: To determine unitary costs and operational costs, and to identify the elements and the most important variables when using epidural analgesia for labor. Material and method: Design: retrospective,descriptive,andcross-sectional study. Patients included were 53 women in labor. They received epidural analgesia for delivery in January 2006 at the Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal (the main Maternity Hospital in Lima, Peru). The instrument used was a survey for estimating costs. Costs types are calculated using a methodology assessing information of hospital management, determining the percentage attributable for every variable, knowing expenses for every unit we calculated unitary expenses and total production costs. Results: Professional fees is a variable with the maximum weight, and it represents 74 % of costs within the whole service, therapeutic material and...

Objective: To determine unitary costs and operational costs, and to identify the elements and the most important variables when using epidural analgesia for labor. Material and method: Design: retrospective,descriptive,andcross-sectional study. Patients included were 53 women in labor. They received epidural analgesia for delivery in January 2006 at the Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal (the main Maternity Hospital in Lima, Peru). The instrument used was a survey for estimating costs. Costs types are calculated using a methodology assessing information of hospital management, determining the percentage attributable for every variable, knowing expenses for every unit we calculated unitary expenses and total production costs. Results: Professional fees is a variable with the maximum weight, and it represents 74 % of costs within the whole service, therapeutic material and...