epidural

/ep-i-door-uhl, -dyoor-/US // ˌɛp ɪˈdʊər əl, -ˈdyʊər- //UK // (ˌɛpɪˈdjʊərəl) //

硬膜外,硬膜外孕,硬膜外麻醉,硬膜外手术

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

n.名词 noun

I’ll never forget worrying about the vulnerable middle meningeal artery lying underneath and the potential for trauma to cause an epidural hematoma.
But had I needed an epidural, had something gone wrong and I needed a caesarean, that would have been OK, too.
This “lucid interval” is found in nearly half of all cases of epidural hematoma (Bullock, Neurosurgery, 2006).
On a pain scale of one to 10, Chelsea ranks the epidural-free birth of her child as a six.
The problem is that there is no convincing evidence that epidural injections work.
In the effort to assign blame, we need to ask why so many people are getting epidural injections for back pain in the first place.