Epidural anesthesia

Epidural anesthesia is a technique of injecting drugs, diagnostic or therapeutic chemical substances and certain analgesic through a catheter by using the epidural medical route of administration in which a drug is injected into the epidural space of the spinal cord.

 

Epidural anesthesia injection can be performed anywhere along the vertebral column and requires slow onset with large amount of injected substance.

Epidural anesthesia can be used:
• for pain relief
• as an adjunct to general anesthesia
• as a sole technique for surgical anesthesia, for example in Caesarean section
• for the treatment of back pain
• for the treatment of chronic pain or palliation of symptoms in terminal care

The Epi-Guard is specially designed to anchor the catheters used in epidural anesthesia.

Boqing Chen and Patrick M. Foye, UMDNJ: New Jersey Medical School, Epidural Steroid Injections: Non-surgical Treatment of Spine Pain, eMedicine: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), August 2005.
Find out more

Leighton BL, Halpern SH (2002). “The effects of epidural analgesia on labor, maternal, and neonatal outcomes: a systematic review”. Am J Obstet Gynecol 186 (5 Suppl Nature): S69–77
Find out more