Rethinking procedural pain in labor: A comparison of lidocaine injection techniques for epidural catheter placement assessed with an objective clinician-centric pain score—A double-blind randomized controlled trial

• Lukas Croner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Croner, Plato Lysandrou, Haosheng Li, Andrew Devine, Yue Yu, Ling-Qun Hu

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Plato Lysandrou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Croner, Plato Lysandrou, Haosheng Li, Andrew Devine, Yue Yu, Ling-Qun Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Haosheng Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Croner, Plato Lysandrou, Haosheng Li, Andrew Devine, Yue Yu, Ling-Qun Hu

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Andrew Devine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Croner, Plato Lysandrou, Haosheng Li, Andrew Devine, Yue Yu, Ling-Qun Hu

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

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• Tyler Balon ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, YX, NH, MA-R, MEV, AU and EVM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Yun Xia ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, YX, NH, MA-R, MEV, AU and EVM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Nasir Hussain ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, YX, NH, MA-R, MEV, AU and EVM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Yue Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Croner, Plato Lysandrou, Haosheng Li, Andrew Devine, Yue Yu, Ling-Qun Hu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, YX, NH, MA-R, MEV, AU and EVM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0653-0718

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• Marco Echeverria Villalobos ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, YX, NH, MA-R, MEV, AU and EVM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5770-754X

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• Alberto Uribe ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, YX, NH, MA-R, MEV, AU and EVM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Elvia Vera Miquilena ,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, YX, NH, MA-R, MEV, AU and EVM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Ling-Qun Hu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Croner, Plato Lysandrou, Haosheng Li, Andrew Devine, Yue Yu, Ling-Qun Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lingqun.hu@osumc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0548-051X

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