A balance between pain relief, bodily awareness, and control: a qualitative study on women’s experiences with intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for labour analgesia

Patricia Duch

doi:10.1016/j.ijoa.2026.105228

A balance between pain relief, bodily awareness, and control: a qualitative study on women’s experiences with intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for labour analgesia

2026-07-02

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Patricia Duch *

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Helene Korvenius Nedergaard

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Amalie E. Thiele-Nygaard

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Laura Fugmann

DOI：10.1016/j.ijoa.2026.105228

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• Remifentanil enabled a balance between pain relief, presence, and bodily awareness, supporting a sense of control in labour. • Remifentanil was positioned between nitrous oxide and epidural and often chosen to avoid epidural analgesia. • The findings support remifentanil as a relevant additional option within individualised labour analgesia.

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Remifentanil

RemiPCA

Labour analgesia

Remifentanil for labour analgesia

Individualised labour analgesia

A balance between pain relief, bodily awareness, and control: a qualitative study on women’s experiences with intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for labour analgesia

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