Eli5: Since epidurals are so commonly used to subside pain during active labor and child birth, why are they not used during other major medical procedures?
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My husband had an epidural for a double lung transplant. Epidurals probably don’t seem as common for other purposes as they truly are because every birth mom seems to want to overshare her birth story, but not everyone overshares their fill-in-the-blank surgery story detail-by-detail the same way.
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