Regional anesthesia appears to reduce persistent post-surgical pain in adults after thoracotomy, breast cancer surgery and cesarean section, although evidence is of modest quality.
Taking oral antihypertensive agents at bedtime rather than the morning, improves BP control and reduces the incidence of cardiac death, myocardial infarct, revascularization, heart failure and stroke.
High level evidence does not show any clinically meaningful difference for early vs late labour epidural analgesia, whether on maternal or neonatal outcomes.
A greater relief in labor pain with epidural analgesia is associated with lower postpartum depression scores, although with less clinical significance than other risk factors.
Intending to deliver with labour epidural analgesia and then receiving a labour epidural is associated with slightly lower rate of postnatal depression.