Anesthesia and analgesia should be provided to ferrets that are undergoing potentially painful surgical procedures. The epidural route of administration for anesthetic or analgesic drugs can be used.

Researchers from the University of Granada observed that babies born after epidural analgesia show a small decline in Apgar index values, a quick test applied to newborn babies in order to assess ...

BACKGROUND: Epidural analgesia is associated with an increased rate of fever in prospective randomized trials. While the evidence suggests that epidural fever is not infectious, epidural analgesia has ...

Changes Clinical Practice: Anesthesiologists should stop using epidural ropivacaine for labor analgesia and never use it for epidural anesthesia for cesarean delivery. Newer does not mean better. As ...

Is local infiltration of an abdominal wound with an anesthetic as effective as epidural anesthesia for the control of postoperative pain? The authors of this article combined the results of 9 ...

Having an epidural during labour is associated with a marked reduction in serious complications in the first few weeks after giving birth, finds a study published by The BMJ today. Doctors refer to ...

The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP),the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) the American College of Obstetricians and ...

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 ...

Association of epidural analgesia during labor with neonatal, childhood outcomes during the first 1000 days of life has been explored by a new study. Although during labor, the use of epidural ...

A new study provides evidence contrary to prior reports that fever in laboring women is associated with epidural analgesia. A study from the August issue of Anesthesiology provides evidence contrary ...

A clinical diagnosis of ASD was the main outcome of the study. Maternal exposure to labor epidural analgesia (LEA) may be associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in ...

Women who use water immersion during labor and birth experience better maternal and neonatal outcomes compared to those who receive epidural anesthesia, according to a study led by midwife Soledad ...