Audio-Analgesia a Complementary Pain Relief Application within the Confines of Epidural Anesthesia

Abstract

Childbirth is an dynamic experience fraught with medical complications. The field of Anesthesiology has alleviated excruciating pain throughout modernity. The development of new medication and procedures have reduced adverse fatalities. Furthermore, epidural anesthesia have afforded rather painless childbirth. Before the advent of modern anesthesiology (epidural anesthesia), women were bereft of painless births. “Childbirth is painful, and we are in an era when most American women consider some chemical means of pain relief an accepted part of the delivery process” [1]. The advent of anesthesiology has remarkable reduced possible death of the fetus and the mother. However, complications arise not withstanding the fact of the proper implementation of standard protocol. Aspiration of vomitus in obstetric anesthesiology is ubiquitous in the hospital setting. A sizeable amount of pregnant, expectant mothers have vomited during or immediately after following inhalation of anesthesia. In addition, death from epidural anesthesia or spinal anesthesia may result from hypotension. A physiological response to the implementation of an epidural anesthesia is hypotension associated with sympathetic blockade. Effectively managing the blood pressure of an expectant, pregnant mother is an ongoing issue of the utmost importance. Diligent Anesthesiologists adequately resolve the factors leading to hypovolemic state of the patients. There are intrinsic psychosomatic factors that may exacerbate the precarious hypovolemic state blood in expectant, pregnant women.