Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Epidural anesthesia and postoperative patient-controlled epidural anesthesia show favorable results over general anesthesia for major orthopedic surgery, Israeli researchers found. Benzion Beilin, MD, ...

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 ...

A new study published in The BMJ shows that people who had surgery to improve blood flow in their legs under spinal or epidural anesthesia were less likely to die than those who were given general ...

DODOMA: BENJAMIN Mkapa Hospital (BMH) is set to launch a new service that offers safe pain relief for expectant mothers ...

Epidurals and spinal blocks are two effective, safe, and widely used pain relief options during labour. But they aren’t ...

In recent times, epidural anaesthesia has become one of the most popular methods of relieving labour pain. Hospitals carry on the procedure at large every day given its huge demand by pregnant women.

One of the foundational pillars of the Department of Anaesthesiologists at Agha Khan University (AKU) and a pioneer of ...

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 ...

For women, who want a vaginal birth or are at least planning for one but dread the labour pains, an epidural is a boon. It is an invasive form of pain management where an epidural analgesia is given ...

One of the foundational pillars of the Department of Anaesthesiologists at Agha Khan University (AKU) and a pioneer of epidural services in Pakistan, Dr Ursula Chohan has passed away. Dr Chohan has ...

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 ...