• T Heinz and H Schlögel.
• Geburtsh Frauenheilk. 1984 Mar 1; 44 (3): 155-6.

AbstractA study of the side effects of epidural anesthesia for painless delivery in 100 patients showed that 90% of the post partum patients were very satisfied with the analgesia and did not consider symptoms post partum to be very debilitating and did not blame the epidural anesthesia for the symptoms. Severe pain in the occiput and the cervical spine occurred in only two cases. In one case, the cerebro-spinal fluid was punctured. Headaches following epidural anesthesia are described as a great disadvantage of this method of obstetric analgesia. However, the headaches were no more common in the group with epidural anesthesia than in the compare group. No correlation was found with puncture of the dura which is suspected in the literature. Retention of urine was not found to be correlated to the epidural anesthesia. Uniformity of the responses by the maternity patients were striking especially if one considered that the social condition and the psychic condition of the individual woman such as attitude to delivery, presence of the husband at delivery, and other factors were not evaluated.

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