Niagara Falls, Ontario—Although epidural blockade is very effective in providing analgesia in laboring women, unilateral blockade can result in inadequate analgesia. Now, however, researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto have found that a thermal imaging camera can be used for fast, noninvasive and objective detection of temperature asymmetry in patients with unilateral epidural blockade, a step that ultimately may pave the way for adequate analgesia in
APRIL 30, 2018