*Backward selection model used with entry at p<0.25, † Age corrected for prematurity. Adjusted for 1 GA at delivery, reason for CD, education, reason for CD, 5 GA at delivery, reason for CD, race, ...

Doctors may use general anesthesia during delivery if regional anesthesia is not a suitable option. Doctors typically reserve general anesthesia for surgical deliveries, such as cesarean deliveries.

General anesthesia makes you unconscious and pain-free during surgery, ensuring you don’t feel or remember anything while surgeons perform the procedure safely. General anesthesia is a procedure in ...

Presented before the Alumni Society of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, March 14, 1941. Edward G. Waters, M.D. Assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Columbia University College of ...

General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...