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obstetric anesthesia

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obstetric anesthesia
Etymology: L, obstetrix, midwife; Gk, anaisthesia, lack of feeling
any of various procedures used to provide anesthesia for childbirth, including local anesthesia for episiotomy or episiotomy repair; regional anesthesia for labor or delivery, such as by paracervical block or pudendal block; or, for a wider block, epidural, spinal, caudal, or saddle block. Anesthesia for cesarean section may be achieved with an epidural or spinal block or by general anesthesia.


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