Women in labour may get another option for pain relief with the trial of a self-administered nasal spray. About a quarter of women giving birth in New Zealand have spinal epidural blocks to manage the pain, and about 10 percent use Pethidene. Julie Fleet is a midwifery researcher from the University of South Australia who has been trialling another opioid drug sometimes used in childbirth - Fentanyl.
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