BACKGROUND Epidural anesthesia is commonly administered to laboring women. Some studies have suggested that epidural anesthesia might inhibit breast-feeding. This study explores the association between labor epidural anesthesia and early breast-feeding success. METHODS Standardized records of mother-baby dyads representing 115 consecutive healthy, full-term, breast-feeding newborns delivered ...

BACKGROUND The combining of epidural anesthesia with general anesthesia impairs central and peripheral thermoregulatory control and therefore is often accompanied by unintended intraoperative hypothermia. However, little is known about the cardiovascular response to hypothermia during combined epidural and general anesthesia. The authors assessed the effects of hypothermia during such combined ...

Objectives: To evaluate if epidural administration of xylazine could decrease the effective dose of intravenous ketamine for maintenance of general anesthesia in laparoscopic procedures and assessment of related complications during anesthesia. Design: Experimental Study. Animals: 20 Female dogs with 21.0 ± 3.0 kg weight and 18.0 ± 1.2 months age. Material and methods: Animals randomly divid...

This study chose 60 cases of cesarean section for patients with epidural anesthesia (EA) combined spinal epidural anesthesia (CSEA) surgery for clinical application research. Compared with EA, the CSEA could work well in subarachnoid anesthesia and epidural anesthesia. Although it was with less dosage, it had a faster and better effect, good muscle relaxant condition. It not only improved the q...

Introduction Epidural blockade in children continues to grow in popularity with increasing applications in the operating room and beyond. In infants and children, epidural anesthesia is most commonly performed in conjunction with general anesthesia as a means of providing postoperative analgesia or as a combined general-regional anesthetic technique to limit the requirements for general anesthe...

Spinal anesthesia recently has gained popularity for elective cesarean section. Our anesthesia service changed from epidural to spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean section in 1991. To evaluate the significance of this change in terms of time management, costs, charges, and complication rates, we retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients who had received epidural (n = 47) or spinal (n ...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has traditionally been performed under general anesthesia, however, owing in part to the advancement of surgical and anesthetic techniques, many laparoscopic cholecystectomies have been successfully performed under the spinal anesthetic technique. We hoped to determine the feasibility of segmental epidural anesthesia for LC. METHODS Twelve American...

Epidural anesthesia is one of the preferred modes of analgesia intra- and postoperative in limb surgery. Although considered very safe, serious complications can occur with 0.1-1 per 10,000 epidural injections. We present a case of a patient who experienced an acute lumbar epidural hematoma after epidural anesthesia.