Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

Could a simple 30-minute pause in epidural labor analgesia (ELA) be the key to safer, more effective anesthesia during ...

When it's time to have a baby, some women head to the hospital with a detailed birth plan that includes a request to avoid epidural anesthesia. Others think an epidural is the only way to get through ...

More than 40% of people in Australia who access pain relief during labour use epidurals. That amounts to around 92,000 epidurals a year. They’re also used for pain relief outside obstetrics. However, ...

You may have temporary back pain from an epidural at the injection site. But back pain is more likely to occur from delivery. Share on Pinterest Chanawit/Getty Images Pregnancy itself can come with ...

Heitor Medeiros, MD, and A. Sassan Sabouri, MD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the lead and corresponding authors, respectively ...

Epidural analgesia is one of the most effective forms of pain relief during birth. While its effects on the birthing person are well established, the implications for the baby are more of a mystery, ...