General anesthesia appears to be safe for both mother and baby during a C-section, researchers recently reported in the ...

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

For cesarean delivery, regional anesthesia is associated with slightly higher Apgar scores and less frequent need for ...

Racial disparities in obstetric anesthesia remain an issue in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom regardless of key differences in the two countries’ healthcare systems, according to analysis ...