2023年11月14日 · It’s a catheter that is inserted into your “epidural space,” using a needle, which is right outside of the membrane that protects your spinal cord. Doctors use epidural injections to relieve pain...

2021年10月14日 · An epidural and a spinal block both provide pain relief through an injection in the area around your spine. The differences are the placement and the effect. With an epidural, your healthcare provider injects anesthesia into the epidural space around your spinal nerves.

Epidural block eliminates the need for intraoperative muscle relaxants in myasthenic patients and provides superior postoperative pain relief compared with opioids, while minimizing the risk of opioid-induced respiratory depression and pulmonary dysfunction.

An epidural nerve block is a procedure to block pain by injecting anesthetic medication into the epidural space of the spine. The procedure numbs the relevant nerve region thereby blocking the transmission of pain signals from those nerves to the brain.

2024年2月2日 · Epidural anesthesia is a method of neuraxial pain control in which anesthetic medications are injected into the epidural space to block sensory and motor spinal nerve roots in the thoracic, abdominal, pelvic, and lower extremity areas.

Epidural anesthesia is a neuraxial procedure that involves delivering medication, most often local anesthetic, to the epidural space for analgesia or anesthesia. The epidural space is located superficial to the dura mater of the spinal cord and just deep to …

2021年8月10日 · An epidural block interrupts both somatic and sympathetic nerve conduction; thus, cardiovascular changes, including hypotension and tachycardia, may occur. These cardiovascular...

Epidural anesthesia describes the injection of local anesthetic into the epidural space with the result of a complete blockade or reduction in nociceptive input (pain signaling from injured tissue up the spinal cord to the brain) at the spinal cord level resulting in anesthesia or analgesia.

An epidural block is a numbing medicine given by injection (shot) in a specific place in the back. It numbs or causes a loss of feeling in the lower half of your body. This lessens the pain of contractions during childbirth.

2020年11月14日 · An epidural block is a type of regional anesthesia that blocks pain sensation in the legs, abdomen or chest. An epidural block involves injecting a local anesthetic near certain spinal nerves to numb a specific area of your body. Doctors use epidural blocks for many surgeries and procedures.