Research has provided new insights into the mechanisms and management of analgesia in labor and has shed more light on the timing of epidural labor analgesia, the choice of local anesthetics ...

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

The suzetrigine, which only acts on pain neurons, is the first innovation in analgesia in the last ... drug blocks sodium channels similarly to local anesthetics, such as lidocaine.