Sentences with phrase «as an epidural block»

You receive it the same way as an epidural block, but the drug is injected directly into the spinal fluid.

Other types of anesthesia include local anesthesia such as numbing a localized area of skin or a tooth, and spinal anesthesia, such as an epidural block, that results in anesthesia of a particular part of the body.

Other types of anesthesia include local anesthesia, such as numbing an area of skin or a tooth, and spinal anesthesia, such as an epidural block, that results in anesthesia of the spinal nerves to a particular part of the body.

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For those who could afford it — or whose insurance covered it, as ours did — the hospital provided epidurals, which delivered pain - blocking oblivion directly into the central nervous system.....

A conventional epidural will numb (block) both the sensory and motor nerves as they exit from the spinal cord, giving very effective pain relief for labor but making the recipient unable to move the lower part of her body.

I wanted — no, I needed — a pain - blocking epidural and viewed women who eschewed them as trying to be unnecessarily heroic.

An epidural can not block the release of oxytocin as oxytocin is required for uterine contractions and you wouldn't be getting an epidural if you weren't in labor alreadying having uterine contractions and the delivery of the baby itself results in oxytocin release.

If you have decided on a medicated birth, your doctor will present you with a range of options for pain medications such as epidurals and spinal blocks.

In reporting their perinatal statistics, the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, where active management originated, defines labor as normal even when it includes one or more of the following invasive interventions: amniotomy, induction, augmentation, epidural block, and / or eplsiotomy.

As with systemic analgesia, use of opioids in an epidural block increases the risk that your baby will experience a change in heart rate, breathing problems, drowsiness, reduced muscle tone, and reduced breastfeeding.

In another project with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, we're also working to create a larger bank of virtual hospital experiences that could include things such as walking into the operating room, learning what it feels like to have an epidural or nerve block, or go into radiology.