Maternal and Infant Chapter 16 Exam Questions & Answers 100% Correct
A medication that causes partial or complete loss of sensation - ANSWER-Anesthesia A person without professional experience who guides and assists a woman in labor - ANSWER-Doula Naturally occurring opiate-like substances in the body - ANSWER-Endorphins Injection of an analgesic agent into the epidural space just outside the spinal canal, to provide analgesia to the lower body to 12 to 24 hours - ANSWER-Epidural anesthesia An unpleasant sensation caused by pressure, injury, or tissue anoxia; whatever the person experiencing it says it is, and existing whenever he or she says it does - ANSWER-Pain A natural yet simplest form of pain relief for birth that results from the fetal head pressing against the stretched peritoneum. - ANSWER-Pressure anesthesia The injection of a local anesthetic near the right and left pudendal nerves at the level of the ischial spine - ANSWER-Pudendal nerve block
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