News tagged with epidural anesthetic
Study finds women used 30 percent less analgesia during labor when self-administered
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that show that when women administer their own ...
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Mayo researchers find anesthesia not harmful for babies during birth process
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children exposed to anesthesia during Cesarean section are not at any higher risk for learning disabilities later in life than children not delivered by C-section. These findings are ...
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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Deaths from anesthesia during childbirth plummet
The number of women who die from complications of anesthesia during childbirth has plummeted 59 percent over the last two decades thanks to improved monitoring and better medical techniques, according to a recent study.
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Transforaminal steroid injection for lumbar radicular pain proves superior to placebo
A recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation. Full details of the study appear in the ...
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Jul 30, 2010 |
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Medical study shows epidurals and spinal anesthetics are safer than previously reported
The largest ever prospective study into the major complications of epidurals and spinal anaesthetics published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia today concludes that previous studies have over-estimated the risks of sev ...
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Wrong medicine kills new mother
A jury in Britain has returned a verdict of unlawful killing in the death of a woman who had just given birth at Great Western Hospital in Swindon.
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Probing Question: How does anesthesia work?
Many inventions of the 19th century -- telephones, airplanes, phonographs -- have helped to shape the modern world. However, it could be argued that the 1846 discovery of effective surgical anesthesia holds a place of honor ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Chili pepper cocktail points to wide-awake surgery
Imagine an epidural or a shot of Novocain that doesn’t paralyze your legs or make you numb yet totally blocks your pain. This type of pain management is now within reach. As a result, childbirth, surgery, ...
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Oct 04, 2007 |
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