"The first recorded use of an epidural was in 1885, when New York - TopicsExpress



          

"The first recorded use of an epidural was in 1885, when New York neurologist J. Leonard Corning injected cocaine into the back of a patient suffering from "spinal weakness and seminal incontinence."1 More than a century later, epidurals have become the most popular method of analgesia, or pain relief, in US birth rooms. In 2002, almost two-thirds of laboring women, including 59 percent of women who had a vaginal birth, reported that they were administered an epidural.2 In Canada in 2001-2002, around half of women who birthed vaginally used an epidural,3 and in the UK in 2003-2004, 21 percent of women had an epidural before or during delivery.4 Epidurals involve the injection of a local anesthetic drug (derived from cocaine) into the epidural space" mothering/community/a/the-hidden-risk-of-epidurals
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 03:09:59 +0000

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