Sarcouncil Journal of Internal Medicine and Public Health

Abstract: Epidural analgesia is a central nerve block technique achieved by injecting a local anesthetic near the nerves that transmit pain and is widely used as a form of pain relief during childbirth. In our current study, 210 patients from pregnant Iraqi women were collected and distributed into two groups (the first group who underwent epidural anaesthesia for 120 patients and the second group without analgesia for 90 patients). This study aimed to assessing the effect of anaesthesia during labor in Iraq by conducting a cross-sectional study for a period of 7 months (6-6-2019 to 10-1-2020), and demographic information and data were collected from different hospitals in Iraq. The complications were studied for the two groups, and the effect of epidural analgesia on pregnant women was known. The results were found in this study 210 women pregnant distributed as used Epidural analgesia for 120 women and without analgesia for 90 women, age of study between 30 to 40 years with BMI 25 TO 36 kg/m2, Nature of the adjuvant used (Fentanyl FOR 112 patients with 93.3% and Morphine for eight patients with 3.0%. The assessment of pain outcomes for patients according to the VAS scale was relied upon, and high levels of pain were found in patients who did not undergo anaesthesia. As for pregnant women without analgesia, the study revealed an inverse relationship with epidural anaesthesia (r correlation -0.65).