CT reveals spinal and mediastinal air in a hypotensive patient with a history of bariatric surgery, with repeated vomiting ...

An epidural is a procedure in which a combination of medications — for example, analgesics (pain relief meds that don’t cause a loss of muscle movement) and anesthetics (pain relief meds that ...

An epidural is more than just an injection, it also involves the insertion of a catheter to administer pain medication. Here's what you should know.

To administer an epidural, an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist will first give you an injection of local anesthetic in your lower back. “It stings for about 5 or 10 seconds, and then the ...

An epidural paralyzed my husband. But suing our doctor would make the medical system worse. Our doctor's lack of communication about my husband's condition made us livid.

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

Epidural glucocorticoid injection is primarily recommended for radicular pain, which is pain that extends into the leg, as opposed to nonradiating axial pain. The diagnosis of the underlying ...

I received my epidural straight away, but after a few blissful hours of napping and watching The O.C., my medication bag sprung a leak and I spent the last six hours of my labor drug-free.

"Our review affirms the limited effectiveness of epidural steroid injections in the short term for some forms of chronic back pain," study co-author Dr. Pushpa Narayanaswami of Beth Israel ...

Epidural glucocorticoid injections are widely used to treat symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis, a common cause of pain and disability in older adults. However, rigorous data are lacking regarding t ...