Epidural Analgesia is good for Healthy Pregnant Women for Pain Relief during Labor

Epidural anesthesia is a technique for perioperative pain management with lots of applications in anesthesiology. It is commonly used as a pain management adjuvant. It can be a single shot or a continuous infusion for long term pain relief. Epidural anesthesia disposable devices help reduce pain instead of providing an anesthetic effect. These devices relieve pain during childbirth by injecting a numb medicine into the spinal cord to reduce lower back pain. In the anesthesia procedure, these devices are used in the spinal region, including the sacral, lumbar, cervical, and thoracic regions.

Epidural anesthesia disposable devices are used to ease the pain during cesarean deliveries, and thus, worldwide demand for epidural anesthesia disposable devices is increasing. For instance, in 2018, around 100,000 cesarean deliveries were performed in the United Kingdom, of which 21% of deliveries were carried out with epidural anesthesia. Moreover, these devices undergo rigorous safety and efficacy tests before receiving approval. In the United States, several medical companies have received FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval for their epidural anesthesia. For instance, in May 2019, a medical technology company received FDA 510(k) clearance for its EpiFaith syringe to deliver safe epidural anesthesia to patients. Moreover, in October 2018, the company received the CE certification for EpiFaith for usage in epidural procedures.

In Italy, 70% of all anesthesia procedures are general anesthesia, while the rest 30% of anesthesia procedures are divided between peripheral blocks (2%), epidural (8%), and spinal anesthesia (20%). Only 3 hospitals in Italy offer pregnant patients a 24 hours epidural service during labor. Moreover, in Europe, epidural analgesia is recommended for healthy pregnant women requesting pain relief during labor. Epidural medications fall into a class of drugs called local anesthetics, such as lidocaine, chloroprocaine, or bupivacaine. Epidural medications are often delivered in combination with narcotics or opioids such as sufentanil and fentanyl to decrease the required dose of local anesthetic.

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