epidural

[ ep-i-door-uhl, -dyoor- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

epidural

/ ˌɛpɪˈdjʊərəl /

Also calledepidural anaesthesia
1. injection of anaesthetic into the space outside the dura mater enveloping the spinal cord
2. anaesthesia induced by this method

epidural

/ ĕp′ĭ-dr′əl /

C19: from epi- + dur ( a mater ) + -al ¹

But had I needed an epidural, had something gone wrong and I needed a caesarean, that would have been OK, too.

This “lucid interval” is found in nearly half of all cases of epidural hematoma (Bullock, Neurosurgery, 2006).

On a pain scale of one to 10, Chelsea ranks the epidural-free birth of her child as a six.

The problem is that there is no convincing evidence that epidural injections work.

In the effort to assign blame, we need to ask why so many people are getting epidural injections for back pain in the first place.

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