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MATERNAL TEMPERATURE IN LABOUR

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2007

CLAIRE BAILEY  and
PHILIP J STEER
CLAIRE BAILEY
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
PHILIP J STEER*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
*
Professor Philip J Steer, Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, London SW10 9NH
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In this review, we are concerned primarily with pyrexia (hyperthermia; increased maternal temperature in labour) as hypothermia is rare and usually iatrogenic (as in hypothermia for cardiac bypass surgery). We start by reviewing the factors determining maternal temperature, and how it can be measured. We move on to the effects of the commonest cause of maternal pyrexia in labour in modern obstetric practice in developed countries, epidural anaesthesia. We then discuss the most feared cause of maternal pyrexia in labour, chorioamnionitis.

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Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 67 - 83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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