Este segundo volumen del conjunto Manejo del dolor enseña a los futuros padres varias formas en que pueden manejar el dolor, de forma medicada, incluidos los beneficios y los riesgos. Volumen 2: Analgésicos y epidurales cubre: analgésicos y descripción general y procedimiento de la epidural, los beneficios y riesgos de la epidural y el trabajo de parto con una epidural.

Learn how to create a labor space that is soothing and supportive during your labor to reduce pain. The video includes exercises that you can use during your laboring process such as attention focusing, vocalizing, touch, and visual focal points.

Dr. Leora Kuttner, an award-winning filmmaker and an international expert in pediatric pain management, brings us this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at the emerging field of pediatric palliative care. At the film's heart are five remarkable young people who speak with profound clarity and wisdom about being alive and their approach to death. Layering their stories with interviews, the film is a unique portrait of how families and professionals...

Learn about your rights to pain management to help you find relief and live well.

Learn about the pain that can be expected following a surgical procedure and possible ways it may be managed. Also, learn the importance of rating your pain so it can be properly treated.

Learn how your nerve cells signal pain to your brain, and understand the difference between chronic and acute pain.

An alarming number of people are knowingly or otherwise abusing over the counter pain medications. Could there be another way?

Louis heads to the award winning Cedars Sinai Medical Center to learn more about the American way of death. A huge amount of money is spent on treatment during the last year of life and Louis follows the stories of three patients as they grapple with their seemingly terminal conditions. Should they accept the inevitable and try to pass away in as dignified way as possible? Or should they go down fighting, trying every last treatment no matter how...

Anesthesia simply means a loss of sensation and usually of consciousness, typically needed in the event of surgery. This helps to keep a patient still, unable to feel pain, and safely unaware of the procedure taking place. This easy-to-understand overview of anesthesia helps patients understand what to expect and how to prepare for any procedure. The video includes visuals of actual equipment in an operating room setting.

Traditional healing is used around the world—from acupuncture, to laying on of hands, to yoga. How do these alternative remedies work to heal the body and the brain? As part of our series ScienceScope and in cooperation with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the NewsHour’s Nsikan Akpan ventures to Oaxaca, Mexico, to dive into the neuroscience of expectation.