As Mother's Day approaches, Dr. Amy Mauritz, obstetric anesthesiologist for U.S. Anesthesia Partners and mother of two, wants ...

Opting for epidural is not about taking shortcuts; it’s a medically backed, evidence-based method that supports women in ...

Steroids injected into the spine—typically in an area called the epidural space, between the vertebrae and the protective covering of the spinal cord—can temporarily reduce inflammation around ...

In other cases, doctors employ epidural steroid injections to manage chronic pain conditions like spinal stenosis, herniated discs, and sciatica. In either instance, there is often confusion about ...

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 ...

Those with a history of previous lumbar spine surgery or those who had received epidural steroid injections within the last 6 months were excluded. Patients were randomized to injections with ...

On November 18, 2019, the victim underwent a routine lumbar epidural steroid injection procedure ... the plaintiff suffered a massive spinal cord infarction resulting in permanent paraplegia ...

Recent study discusses the challenges of managing parturients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) during anesthesia, ...

Finally, metastasis results when tumor cells in the cerebrospinal fluid deposit tumor cells in the epidural space.This scenario most often occurs in leukemia. [2] Spinal cord compression ...