Bengaluru: The Karnataka health department is planning to introduce labour analgesia options in government hospitals to curb ...

September 11, 2012 — Inhaled pain relief is effective during early labor, according to a systematic review of studies examining the efficacy of inhaling oxygen with either nitrous oxide or a flurane ...

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 ...

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) ...

Physician anesthesiologists prefer that laboring women have an empty stomach because of the lower risk for aspiration (inhaling) of food in case general anesthesia for cesarean section becomes ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: To address the rising rates of C-sections in Karnataka, which account for nearly 47% of institutional births, the ...

A program to improve pain control during labor at one of Ghana's largest maternity units greatly increased the use of safe and effective spinal analgesia for women undergoing cesarean section, reports ...

A Cochrane review of 11 randomized trials evaluated the safety and efficacy of water immersion during the first stage of labor (Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009;[2]:CD000111). Water immersion, which ...

To the Editor: In their interesting review article on regional analgesia for labor and delivery, Eltzschig et al. (Jan. 23 issue) 1 state that the decision to receive any form of analgesia is personal ...

Many women and men wonder how it feels to experience labour. For the sake of those who can’t relate with menstrual cramps, some mothers have described it as the worst stomach cramps you can ever think ...