DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i09.016

Pages: 3266-3268

Epidural analgesia is a recognized technique for efficacious post-operative anaesthesia and analgesia and is also widely used to assist with the management of pain in the obstetric setting. But very little is known about the epidural analgesia. Thus the present study was done to assess the woman’s and nurses knowledge and awareness regarding epidural analgesia. The study was done including of 120 woman’s coming to the OPD of the anesthesiology department, SMBT medical college, Dhamangaon, dist. Nasik, for the pre-surgical tests. Also the study was consisting of the 58 nursing staff of the medical college as well as nearby multispecialty hospitals. The study was done with the help of specially prepared questionnaires which were validated by doing pilot study. All the responses were collected, tabulated and analyzed using IBM SPSS statistics version 20, with the help of student’s t test. On comparison of the score of the knowledge and awareness of the woman’s and nursing staff, it was found that the nurses were having more scores as compared to general woman’s and the difference was found to be statistically highly significant. (Student’s t test, p<0.001). Knowledge associated with epidural analgesia was widely variable. The most of the respondents were aware of the complications of back pain and the extremely rare risk of epidural hematoma resulting in paralysis.