$8,147 for childbirth and $22,955 for knee replacement surgery: These are just two common procedures and their costs in a private hospital if you don't' have private health insurance. (Figures are an average of Medibank's claims information in 2012).
epidurals for surgery and pain relief local anaesthetic or pain relief medicine is injected into the epidural space that surrounds the spinal cord epidurals are also used for the treatment of chronic back pain and sciatica shooting pain down one or both legs and in childbirth but these won t be discussed here
Intravesical pressure (pves), abdominal pres-. sure (pabd), detrusor pressure (pdet: pves-pabd), urethral pressure (pura) measured at the point of maximum urethral pres-. sure, Pura-Pves, urinary flow (Q) and surface electromyography (EMG) during the storage and voiding phases are idealized.