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Audioanalgesia
Audioanalgesia (audio analgesia) is pain control using auditory stimulation such as music, white noise, or environmental sounds; a MeSH-indexed method originating in 1960s dental practice, delivered via patient-controlled earphones.
Caudal Anesthesia
A caudal block is a regional anesthetic technique in which local anesthetic is injected through the sacral hiatus into the caudal epidural space, used chiefly in children for lower-body surgery.
Epidural steroid injection
An epidural steroid injection delivers a corticosteroid, often with local anesthetic, into the epidural space around spinal nerves to relieve radicular pain from disc herniation and spinal stenosis.
Neuraxial anesthesia
Neuraxial anesthesia is regional anesthesia injected near the spinal cord, comprising single-injection spinal anesthesia and catheter-based epidural anesthesia, used for labor analgesia and as the standard anesthetic for cesarean delivery.
Neuraxial block
A neuraxial block is a regional anesthesia technique that injects local anesthetic near the spinal nerves in the epidural or intrathecal space, used for labor analgesia, surgical anesthesia, and postoperative pain control.
Obstetrical Analgesia
Obstetrical analgesia (obstetric analgesia) is pain relief without loss of consciousness during labor, delivery, or the postpartum period. Main methods: epidural and combined spinal-epidural blocks, parenteral opioids, nitrous oxide; epidural gives the strongest pain relief with trade-offs in hypotension, fever, and assisted birth.
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is a pain management method in which patients self-administer epidural local anesthetic and opioid via a pump, used chiefly for labor pain.
Transforaminal epidural steroid injection
A transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) is a pain-medicine procedure that injects corticosteroid near a spinal nerve root to treat radicular pain from disc herniation or stenosis.