26 example sentences using epidural.
Epidural used in a sentence
Epidural in a sentence as a noun
Meanwhile, the UK NHS is famous for steering women away from epidurals.
The odds of that happening would have been considerably less if there had not been an epidural.
One time I got hit with an out-of-network refusal on the epidural and I flat out refused to pay it.
I just had an epidural for my appendectomy, they had me open and closed in 15 minutes.
It's 9 months of misery punctuated by 12 hours of stress and agony, relieved only by the epidural.
I've always wondered why they don't do more surgeries this way, an epidural without anesthesia.
The regions on which surgery can be performed depend on reach of epidural catheter.
For chest surgeries you will need epidural catheter in mid thoracic vertebras.
His death certificate states that the cause of death was "blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma"
"If I place an epidural in Medicaid pt, I get paid something like $36 for the placement, and I don't get a penny for watching this pt for next 18 hours."Wuh?
They also have stockpiles of various ***** which they've received from donations, so they could get an epidural if they happened to have the right stuff in the stock room.
Some examples:- At the hospital where my wife gave birth, the SOP is an epidural and continuous fetal monitoring.
In epidural anesthesia, the catheter can only be advanced a few vertebra up and down from point of insertion.
Epidural in a sentence as an adjective
In the US, an epidural is standard, which requires the expensive services of an anesthesiologist.
So, with an epidural catheter in lumbar region, only lower limbs and lower abdomen can be anesthetized.
I'd also suspect that your $215 wouldn't cover, say, an emergency caesarian, or an epidural and similar *****.
An epidural greatly limits the mother's range of possible positions and activities.
Most of the epidural anesthesia techniques and all of spinal anesthesia techniques use this space because there is no risk of damage to spinal cord.
With epidural cathetr in lower thoracic vertebra , approx.
But the problem with thoracic epidural is risk of puncture of dural sheath and damage to spinal cord which will result in permanent paralysis of that area.
An epidural slows the birthing process, and massively increases your likelihood of further interventions.
On a related note, the anesthesiologist was paid close to $10k for administering the epidural.
The human body hasn't changed, but the medical practices are currently optimized around the assumption of an epidural and keeping to a schedule.
When a woman has a Caesarian, it seems pretty typical that the anaesthetic is an epidural which removes feeling from the lower half of the body while the patient retains full consciousness and feeling from the chest upwards.
"Yes, epidurals are cut - but under what circumstances are you monitoring a patient bedside for 18 hours in a non-hospital setting?And for every one of these examples, there's a ****-side:Wisdom teeth under general anesthesia.
So let me get this:- baby's heart rate was of concern to your doctor - no progress for several hours - baby pooped - your wife had fever during labor - baby and mother now have an infection - c-section - big commotion, no communication with the wifeAnd people still think epidural is a normal part of child birthing?On top of that - this couple will go on to tell other parents how lucky they were that they gave birth at the hospital!
Epidural definitions
regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery
on or outside the dura mater
See also: extradural