
“Pain, Pain, Go Away: Epidurals“ – with Dr. Zevi Hamburger
Healthful Woman Podcast
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Is There a Risk of a Cesarian Delivery?
For women who are pregnant, there is a real risk to being put to sleep for surgery. Most people who have it are going to do fine through it and afterwards. There's a little bit riskin your sleep, a risk of sort of the contents coming out of your stomach and what we call aspirating into your lungs. And so pretty much all of us prefer that patients who are having cesarians have it under either an epideural or a spinal unless we think there's another reason they would have to be put to sleep. But at least we know that our ducksin orow, that we have this this device ready to go, one less than to worry obit.
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