Childbirth brings with it a lot of pain which no one can know unless they experience it. As much as the experience is beautiful, it can make women anxious about the pain and discomfort. To reduce pain ...

Pain during childbirth is universal and its history is timeless. (Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children;….) The ...

Epidural may sound new word but epidural anesthesia is most common and familiar to women. Epidural is kind of anesthesia in which injection are given in spinal cord that numbs the nerves and stops ...

Talking about labour in today's day and age doesn't seem to send jitters down the spine anymore. Thanks to the advances in medical sciences, epidural anaesthesia has come as a boon for expecting ...

Pregnancy is more than just a beautiful phase; it is a crucial time when you prepare yourself both mentally and physically for the big day. Most women spend those nine months planning the D-day, ...

The delivery of the infant into the arms of a conscious and pain-free mother is one of the most exciting and rewarding moments in medicine. Pain relief in labour has always been surrounded with myths ...

The Cochrane review conducted in 2001 re-established the usefulness of external cephalic version (ECV). The success rate for ECV using epidural anesthesia or spinal anesthesia is reported to be 35 to ...

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

A drug that has been on the market for several decades and is a go-to for lakhs of women in labour across the world is barely ...

Epidural anaesthesia is a commonly used method to combat labour pains all over the world. The pain relievers that are injected into the spine of the mother during delivery may not be justified in the ...

Lucknow: A nearly painless normal delivery is possible through a procedure called epidural anaesthesia, though presently, the facility is available only in a few corporate hospitals and in select ...

The reversible and controlled induction of loss of motor and sensory function through the injection of local anesthetics into the epidural space is referred to as epidural anesthesia. This mode of ...