Effect of infrared belt and hot water bag on the duration of first stage of labor in Primiparous women: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Main Authors: Fatemeh Dastjerd (Author), Fatemeh Erfanian (Author), Ameneh Sazegarnia (Author), Farideh Akhlaghi (Author), Masoumeh Kordi (Author), Habibollah Esmaeili (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Prolonged labor leads to adverse birth outcomes. Thermotherapy is a new non-pharmacological method to reduce duration of labor. Hot water bags and infrared are the methods of thermotherapy. Due to the different mechanism of these two methods and lack of study regarding their comparison...