(1) Because epidural analgesia provides the highest level of pain relief, the physician and patient should decide when it should be used.

(2) The Acute Pain Service from the Department of Anesthesia manages epidural analgesia .

(3) She was able to take analgesia orally

(4) In Scotland, a conservative view by anaesthetists prevented patients with epidural anaesthesia / analgesia being nursed outside of high dependency units.

(5) The association of maternal fever with epidural analgesia is well known.

(6) Most women in the United States deliver infants in hospitals where epidural analgesia or intravenous narcotics are the only pain-relief options.