Epidural analgesia remains a cornerstone in managing labour and surgical pain, with evolving techniques aiming to enhance both efficacy and safety. Traditionally, continuous epidural infusion (CEI) ...

During the first stage of labor, a combined spinal-epidural (CSE) technique offers faster and better-quality analgesia (pain relief) compared to traditional epidural analgesia, according to a new ...

Developed countries have seen rising rates of medical interventions during labor and delivery. A team of investigators from Australia studied how a new approach to prenatal childbirth education ...

Epidural techniques which use low-dose anaesthetics reduce the need for assisted vaginal delivery in childbirth, casting doubt over the future use of conventional epidurals, conclude authors of a ...

An estimated 3.0 million epidural steroid injection procedures are performed yearly in these three jurisdictions. Medicare is expected to account for up to 40% of clinical practice volume, ...

The question of whether an epidural or spinal is advisable after spinal surgery does not appear to have been studied systematically. What we know and how we practice is based on case reports, most of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite the long-held belief that epidurals prolong labor, new research demonstrates that epidurals have no ...

Browne IM, Birnbach DJ, Stein DJ et al. (2005) A comparison of Espocan and Tuohy needles for the combined spinal-epidural technique for labor analgesia. Anesth Analg 101(2): 535–40 Cook TM, Counsell D ...

Samantha Lauriello is a social media strategist and editor. She was previously an assistant editor at Health before moving over to Travel + Leisure as a social media editor. Epidurals are generally ...

A method of epidural anesthesia, although proven efficient in humans, had never been tested in animals until now. Two specialists in Veterinary Anesthesiology have successfully used for the first time ...