The risks of anesthesia make many pregnant women uneasy before giving birth. Is anesthesia that scary? What are the risks of anesthesia during childbirth?
What are the benefits of using anesthesia during childbirth?
Anesthesia is an invasive treatment, so there are bound to be side effects and complications, but in fact, anesthesia is to help the mother complete the delivery process, reduce pain, and assist the mother and fetus to maintain life when obstetric complications or emergencies occur. physical signs.
Therefore, after understanding the necessity and risks of anesthesia, there is no need to be afraid of anesthesia.
Commonly used anesthesia methods in production include local anesthesia and general anesthesia. Each has its advantages, disadvantages, indications and contraindications.
What are the risks of local anesthesia, spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia?
Low-risk pregnant women can participate in delivery
Generally speaking, local anesthesia is less risky, but it requires the cooperation of the mother. The anesthesia method used in production is basically local anesthesia, mainly spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia.
Spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia are commonly known as hemiplegia, which is what the older generation calls keel needle. It requires the mother to lie on her side and bend over in the shape of a cooked shrimp. After spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia are completed, the mother\’s abdomen and lower limbs are numb and cannot exert force, but she is conscious. Therefore, the mother can participate in the delivery process at the first time and hear the baby\’s cry, which is something that general anesthesia cannot do.
Semi-general anesthesia has good analgesic effect and has little effect on the baby, because the anesthetic drugs act on the mother\’s nerves and directly inhibit the conduction of pain.
Half-body anesthesia is relatively safe for both mother and fetus, so half-body anesthesia is the main anesthesia method used during delivery.
Which pregnant women are at risk from local anesthesia?
If the mother has coagulation problems, such as unexplained congestion or bleeding spots in the body, or small wounds that bleed for a long time, or blood tests reveal abnormal coagulation, semi-general anesthesia is not suitable.
There is concern that the blood will not coagulate and form a large clot that could compress the spinal cord during local anesthesia. If an unfortunate event occurs, emergency surgery will be required to remove the blood clot before causing permanent damage to the spinal cord.
However, this complication rarely occurs if blood clotting is normal.