CHILDBIRTH & ANESTHESIA

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INTRAVENOUS PAIN-RELIEVING MEDICATIONS

Childbirth  

These medications include:
 

• Morphine
• Demerol (meperidine)
• Fentanyl
• Numorphan (generic name oxymorphone)
• Other options
 

All of these are "opioids," meaning morphine-like drugs, which work by interfering with pain processing pathways in both the brain and spinal cord.