Women were randomly assigned to receive intrathecal fentanyl or systemic hydromorphone at the first request for analgesia. Epidural analgesia was initiated in the intrathecal group at the second ...

The other group received CSE, which starts with medications injected into the intrathecal space -- the deeper space directly around the spinal cord. After initial epidural or intrathecal injection ...

The use of oral narcotic or nonnarcotic analgesics other than diclofenac was prohibited, and no intrathecal, epidural, or neurolytic nerve blocks were administered during the entire follow-up period.

As you say, not all trials found a benefit, but the largest trial found that intrathecal injections (similar to epidural but found to be more effective in a small trial) led to excellent or good ...

Additionally, controlled trials comparing epidural and intrathecal approaches have provided valuable insights into the balance between reliable analgesia and a prompt return of motor function [3][4].

Dr Malhotra and colleagues were looking for some way of calculating the initial intrathecal analgesia dose without the need for an epidural trial. The researchers performed an in-depth analysis of ...

either into the epidural or the intrathecal space, as well as the modality of its administration and the rediscovered continuous intrathecal administration of drugs. The more technically savvy ...

addresses the nurse's role in managing epidural, intrathecal, spinal and patient-controlled epidural analgesia catheters in the labor and delivery setting. If you do something other than what the ...

Behar et al 1 and Wang et al 2 first reported that intrathecal and epidural opioids were effective for acute and severe pain in humans. Despite the early reports regarding the analgesic efficacy ...