Epidural needle can sit up in 6 hours

You can sit up in six hours on an epidural.

An epidural should be done by lying flat for 4-6 hours. Epidural anesthesia is first to let the patient position side lying, head down, hands holding knees, as far as possible to the lumbar arch out, choose the puncture point on the lumbar spine, then do a local anesthesia piculus, and then epidural needle puncture, after successful puncture from the epidural space into an epidural catheter, and then give 3-5ml lidocaine as the experimental amount. If the patient has a feeling of fever and numbness in the lower part of the body, and after 5 minutes the patient has no uncomfortable symptoms such as dizziness and dizziness, 10-15ml of ropivacaine can be administered through an epidural catheter. The drug can be administered according to the patient's weight and height, and the required anesthetic effect can be achieved in about 10 minutes. The patient's lower body was immobile and painless throughout the operation.

With the improvement of anesthesia technology, there will be few patients with postoperative headache, but try to lie flat for 4 hours to prevent the occurrence of postoperative headache.