Abstract:Introduction: Tumescent anaesthesia is a practice of giving a very dilute form of local anaesthesia drug combined with epinephrine to a tissue till the tissue becomes firm and tense (tumescent). Delivery is a physiological procedure associated with great pain, which is in turn added by the episiotomy procedure. Advantage of using tumescent anaesthesia as a local anaesthetic agent include that it reduces the blood loss by both epinephrine induced vasoconstriction and hydrostatic compression from the tumescent e… Show more
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