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epidural
(redirected from Epidural analgesia)

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epidural
1. upon or outside the dura mater
2. 
a. injection of anaesthetic into the space outside the dura mater enveloping the spinal cord
b. anaesthesia induced by this method

epidural [¦ep·ə¦du̇r·əl]
(anatomy)
Located on or over the dura mater.


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During their hospital stay, all patients followed a well-defined care plan with multimodal fast-track rehabilitation (20,21); this plan included early surgery within 24 hours of admission, epidural anesthesia and epidural analgesia initiated immediately after admittance and continued for 96 hours after surgery, a standardized transfusion protocol if the hemoglobin level was less than 6.
There are no long-term studies of the effects of epidural analgesia on exposed human offspring.
Forty-seven percent of women who labored in water and 66% of those receiving standard augmentation required epidural analgesia at some point; the difference, assessed through chi-square testing, was not statistically significant.
 
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