Meanings of epidural analgesia in English

Maternal general anesthesia combined with postoperative epidural analgesia was commonly used.

There was no association between fever and epidural analgesia.

Background: Thoracic epidural analgesia is the standard postoperative pain management strategy in esophageal cancer surgery.

One hundred primiparas delivering under similar conditions without epidural analgesia were selected as the control group.

Methods: We used questionnaires to investigate patients' impression of and degree of satisfaction to, epidural analgesia.

Objective: To analyze the factors leading to prescheduled analgesic withdrawal in patients with postoperative epidural analgesia.

The mechanism and incidence of urinary retention in relation to epidural analgesia, however, are not established.

Both groups received general anaesthesia and epidural analgesia.

Postoperative epidural analgesia may improve perioperative cardiac morbidity.

Two patients (including one with intrauterine fetal death) underwent vaginal delivery under epidural analgesia.

Therefore, we studied this issue in 70 patients who had received elective surgery and epidural analgesia postoperatively.

Results: Preoperatively 80% of the patients had an anticipation of adequate analgesia with epidural analgesia.

We also evaluated PCEA usage, analgesic usage and side effects of epidural analgesia during the postoperative period.

Postpartum urinary retention is, however, more related to prolonged labor than to the effect of epidural analgesia itself.

Background and objectives: The effect of postoperative epidural analgesia (vs. systemic analgesia) on patient outcomes is unclear.

Postoperative opioid consumption should be lowered as possible by using multimodal analgesia and regional analgesia such as postoperative epidural analgesia.