Sentences with phrase «by epidural injection»

Siranda Torvaldsen of the University of Sydney, Australia, found that 416 women given the opioid drug fentanyl by epidural injection during delivery were twice as likely to have stopped breastfeeding their baby by the age of six months compared with 312 women who didn't receive epidural fentanyl (International Breastfeeding Journal, DOI: 10.1186 / 1746 -4358-1-24).

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An epidural gives inadequate pain relief for 10 to 15 percent of women, 55 and the epidural catheter needs to be reinserted in about 5 percent.56 For around 1 percent of women, the epidural needle punctures the dura (dural tap); this usually causes a severe headache that can last up to six weeks, but can usually be treated by an injection into the epidural space.57, 58

Epidural Anesthesia Epidural anesthesia is performed by injecting an anesthetic agent into the spinal fluid of a sedated rabbit which produces numbness from the injection site backwards down the spine.

In plaintiff's suit for the wrongful death of her husband from fungal meningitis allegedly resulting from an epidural injection of a contaminated steroid produced by a compounding pharmacy and used by defendant health care providers, a Roanoke City Circuit Court...