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Epidural Analgesia - Epidural analgesia, sometimes called an epidural block, causes some loss of feeling in the lower areas of your body, yet you remain awake and alert. An epidural block may be given soon after your contractions start, or later as your labor progresses. An epidural block with more or stronger medications (anesthetics, not analgesics) can be used for a cesarean delivery or if vaginal birth requires the help of forceps or vacuum extraction. Your doctors will work with you to determine the proper time to give the epidural.
An epidural block is given in the lower back into a small area (the epidural space) below the spinal cord. You will be asked to sit or lie on your side with your back curved outward and to stay this way until the procedure is completed. You can move when it's done, but you may not be allowed to walk around.
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How long after epidural does a woman give birth?
There is no set time after an epidural that you deliver. There are many factors that go into delivery. It depends on how dialated you are when you receive the epidural Also, how fast and strong your contractions are. You can be in labor for quite a while after you get your epidural. The joy is that you don't mind it so much anymore.
Can an epidural go wrong?
very rare but possible yes
When you have an epidural for a hip replacement do you go to sleep?
The epidural numbs the body from the waist down but doesn't cause you to go to sleep. However in some procedures, they also give you a sedating medication which wipes out all memory of the procedure and events in the OR.
Can you get epidural with every birth?
Yes, you can get an epidural with each birth.
Is an epidural for labor and an epidural for back pain the same?
They are the same
What area is the anesthesia is administered to numb the nerves from the uterus and birth passage without stopping labor?
epidural
If you are endued can you still get an epidural?
yes you can have and epidural if you are induced - Christina ballesteros
Should you get epidural?
Heck yeah, get the epidural! Especially if you are a woman in labor!
What is the unscrambled word for pedirula?
The anagram is the medical term "epidural."
Does epidural anesthesia cause swelling in feet after giving birth?
when you get the epidural could you get swelling?
Where in the spine do the insert the needle for an epidural?
I think the needle will be inserted in lumbar 3 and 4 for epidural.
Under what circumstances is epidural therapy performed?
Epidural anesthesia can block most of the pain of labor and birth for vaginal and surgical deliveries. Epidural analgesia is also used after cesarean sections
