World Pain Relief Day | You don’t have to endure some pain! Let’s learn the truth about “labor analgesia”

As we all know, the pain of childbirth experienced by mothers is considered one of the most severe pains in life. At the same time, the childbirth process is related to the life safety of both mother and child. Therefore, labor analgesia, while ensuring the safety of mother and child, can not only save tens of millions of expectant mothers from pain, but also bring warmth, happiness and peace to tens of millions of families.

October 16, 2023 is World Analgesia Day. We specially invite Professor Huang Yuguang , member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Director of the Department of Anesthesiology of Peking Union Medical College, to meet with you face to face to briefly popularize the scientific knowledge of labor analgesia.

Popularizing science is an important basic work to achieve innovative development and an important means to improve the quality of the nation. As an important communication medium, medical science and technology journals shoulder the dual mission of publishing medical research results and popularizing medical science knowledge, and should take the initiative to make a difference in scientific and technological innovation and popularization of science.

Popularizing science requires not only medical experts, but also CPPCC members who are representatives of the masses from all walks of life and outstanding representatives of many scientific and technological workers. Taking the lead in popularizing science is not only to fulfill the social responsibilities and obligations that should be fulfilled, but also a concrete manifestation of conscientiously implementing the important expositions of the General Secretary on doing a good job in popularizing science, and is also the best practice of the decision-making and deployment of the 20th CPC National Congress on strengthening the national capacity building for popularizing science. We should give full play to the advantages of medical experts and CPPCC members, popularize scientific knowledge, advocate scientific methods, spread scientific ideas, and promote the scientific spirit, and make our due contribution to the popularization of science "serving the people".

▌The popular science theme of this article comes from: "The effect of the amount of epidural analgesic solution for labor analgesia on the effect of epidural anesthesia during conversion to cesarean section: a prospective cohort study"

Original author: Zhao Na, Li Xiaoguang, Wang Sujie, Xu Tao, Bai Yunbo, Xu Mingjun

Editor: Liu Yang and Zhao Na

Proofreading: Li Na, Li Yule, Dong Zhe, Li Huiwen

Producer: Wu Wenming

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