According to Health Canada, epidural catheters are in short supply in four provinces— meaning that epidurals could become inaccessible to thousands of pregnant people who rely on them for pain management during labour.
Childbirth is one of the most painful experiences that human beings can go through, and more than half of these labours involve one specific intervention for pain: an injection called an epidural.
Doctors are concerned about the impact this will have on pregnant people if provinces run out of the materials necessary to offer epidurals. Epidurals not only assist with pain management but also high-risk births.Filteau is the vice president of the Canadian Anesthesiologist Society. She says that in general, between 50 and 60 per cent of labours use an epidural.
“I think that’s every woman’s go-to in the back of their head, knowing that an epidural will be available,” she told CTV News.
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