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Care pathways for pregnant women with COVID‐19

A recent review published in the journal Global Challenges in October 2020, sums up what is currently known about the treatment of COVID-19 during pregnancy and offers recommendations for how healthcare professions might better manage pregnant COVID-19 patients in the future.

16 Nov 2020

Epidural analgesia during childbirth does not increase infant's risk of developing autism

The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology,the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine aim to clearly reassure pregnant women that the article "Association Between Epidural Analgesia During Labor and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Offspring," a new retrospective database study published in JAMA Pediatrics on October 12th, 2020 does not provide credible scientific evidence that labor epidurals for pain relief cause autism.

13 Oct 2020

Young doctor succumbs to COVID, one of the south’s many health workers lost

It took Carrie Wanamaker several days to connect the face she saw on GoFundMe with the young woman she had met a few years before.

8 Oct 2020

Study finds no link between SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy and complications in neonates

In a new study published in the esteemed journal JAMA researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital have examined the association between a positive SARS-CoV-2 test during pregnancy and complications in mothers and their newborn babies.

23 Sep 2020

Pain relief drugs offer more choices for women during childbirth

Choice and control are important factors for ensuring a positive childbirth experience, yet until recently, little was known about the impact of alternative administrations of fentanyl – one of the pain relief drugs used during labour– on both mother and baby.

1 Jul 2020

Study finds nitrous oxide use during labor to be safe with rare side effects

Researchers at the University of Colorado College of Nursing and the School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology at the Anschutz Medical Campus found that the use of nitrous oxide as a pain relief option for individuals in labor is safe for newborn children and laboring individual, and converting to a different form of pain relief such as an epidural or opioid is influenced by a woman's prior birth history and other factors.

29 May 2020

New method could help facilitate transition of medical technology from lab to market

Advances in materials, microfabrication and medical imaging are accelerating the pace of innovation in implantable neuroprosthetics.

16 Mar 2020

Laughing gas can help manage labor pain without side effects to the baby

Women report being very satisfied with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) to manage labor pain, experiencing no adverse side effects to the baby, although over half of the women ultimately opted for an epidural or other pain management technique, suggests a study being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2019 annual meeting.

20 Oct 2019

Epidural News and Research

Care pathways for pregnant women with COVID‐19

Epidural analgesia during childbirth does not increase infant's risk of developing autism

Young doctor succumbs to COVID, one of the south’s many health workers lost

Study finds no link between SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy and complications in neonates

Pain relief drugs offer more choices for women during childbirth

Study finds nitrous oxide use during labor to be safe with rare side effects

New method could help facilitate transition of medical technology from lab to market

Laughing gas can help manage labor pain without side effects to the baby

Kazan Federal University and Mayo Clinic implement novel spinal cord stimulation device

Study finds rates of new persistent opioid use among women after vaginal or cesarean delivery

Robotic technology for spinal fusion at Norwalk Hospital helps great grandmother stay active

Kessler Foundation receives $1 million gift to study groundbreaking treatments for spinal cord injury

Spinal cord stimulation can restore voluntary movement and autonomic functions in paralyzed patients

Study finds wide variation in neuraxial analgesia use in pregnant women across the United States

Insured but still in debt: 5 jobs pulling in $100k a year no match for medical bills

One twin’s difficult birth puts a project designed to reduce C-sections to the test

Simple procedure could be efficacious intervention for failed back surgery

Patients with paralysis manage to walk thanks to new technology

Paralyzed man regains his ability to stand, walk with spinal cord stimulation and physical therapy

Epidural stimulation and locomotor training helps patients with spinal cord injury to walk

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